Subject to Fiction: Women Teachers' Life History Narratives and the Cultural Politics of ResistanceOpen University Press, 1998 - 153 pages Situated within current feminist/poststructuralist theories regarding the subject, this book focuses on the lives of three women teachers and their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The text argues that the complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, point to new ways of thinking about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency. The implications of this, alleged, reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory and life history research are woven throughout the book. |
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... sort of fell into it . ' Again , I am puzzled by her perception of her career as ' just happening ' and I push to find some clue by asking her to describe the stages of progression in her career . [ Can you ? ] Not really . I had a lot ...
... sort of fell into it . ' Again , I am puzzled by her perception of her career as ' just happening ' and I push to find some clue by asking her to describe the stages of progression in her career . [ Can you ? ] Not really . I had a lot ...
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... sort of draw me into certain situations . I sort of rely on other people to identify where my skills are and to say , here's an open door and would you like to pursue this , or we think you can do this . Thus , despite her own strong ...
... sort of draw me into certain situations . I sort of rely on other people to identify where my skills are and to say , here's an open door and would you like to pursue this , or we think you can do this . Thus , despite her own strong ...
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... sort of conclusion without engaging in the violence of interpretation is the contra- diction with which I engage . Rather than posit final truths , I hope to engage in a discussion that questions unitary readings of concepts like gender ...
... sort of conclusion without engaging in the violence of interpretation is the contra- diction with which I engage . Rather than posit final truths , I hope to engage in a discussion that questions unitary readings of concepts like gender ...
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impossible fictions | 1 |
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It is not what you teach but who you are | 43 |
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