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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... woman teacher . Who is this subject : the school marm , the spinster , the mother - teacher ? These are ' subjects ... woman teacher is an impossible fiction . To be a woman is to lack authority , knowledge and power . To be a teacher is ...
... woman teacher . Who is this subject : the school marm , the spinster , the mother - teacher ? These are ' subjects ... woman teacher is an impossible fiction . To be a woman is to lack authority , knowledge and power . To be a teacher is ...
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... woman ' . Specifically , Agnes's narratives highlight how she negotiated understandings of self within the conflicting gender discourses of separate spheres that had supported the notion of ... Woman adrift'?: the new woman and teaching.
... woman ' . Specifically , Agnes's narratives highlight how she negotiated understandings of self within the conflicting gender discourses of separate spheres that had supported the notion of ... Woman adrift'?: the new woman and teaching.
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... woman ' was plagued with contra- dictions . Although this image suggested an independent woman , becoming too independent implied that one had become defeminized . This negotiation between being the ' new woman ' ( in many ways a male ...
... woman ' was plagued with contra- dictions . Although this image suggested an independent woman , becoming too independent implied that one had become defeminized . This negotiation between being the ' new woman ' ( in many ways a male ...
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It is not what you teach but who you are | 43 |
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