Subject to fiction : women teachers' life history narratives and the cultural politics of resistance / Petra Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendry, Petra Munro, 1958-

Series:

Feminist educational thinking series.

Feminist educational thinking

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women teachers--United States--Biography.

Women teachers.

Feminist theory.

History.

Sexism in education.

Social conditions.

United States.

Women teachers--United States--Social conditions--History.

Sexism in education--United States--History.

Feminist theory--United States--History.

Oral history.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 153 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Situated within current feminist/poststructuralist theories regarding the 'subject', this book takes seriously the lives of women teachers. Drawing on the life histories of three teachers, it explores their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, provide new ways to think about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency. The implications of this reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory and life history research are woven throughout the book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [134]-147) and index.

ISBN:

0335200796

0335200788

OCLC:

38014167