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The teacher's body : embodiment, authority, and identity in the academy / edited by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teaching--Social aspects--United States.
- College teaching.
- Teachers with disabilities--United States--Psychology.
- Teachers with disabilities.
- Teacher-student relationships--United States.
- Teacher-student relationships.
- Psychology.
- College teaching--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Bodies Enter the Classroom / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson xi
- The Teacher's Body / Betty Smith Franklin 15
- On the Desk: Dwarfism, Teaching, and the Body / Scott Andrew Smith 23
- Body Teaching / Cortney Davis 35
- Teaching Women's Studies, E-Mailing Cancer / Carolyn DiPalma 41
- Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance / Diane Price Herndl 59
- "I've Got a Blind Prof": The Place of Blindness in the Academy / Rod Michalko 69
- My Body, Myself: A Quadriplegic's Perception of and Approach to Teaching / Richard Radtke, James Skouge 83
- The Day the Foreign Devil Came to Class: My Teaching Body in China / Pam Whitfield 99
- Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the Classroom / Simone A. James Alexander 105
- Moving Bodies / Petra Kuppers 119
- Dancing Revolution: A Meditation on Teaching and Aging / Brenda Daly 123
- Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching Year / Ray Pence 145
- A "Sisterly Camaraderie" and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight Students / Jonathan Alexander 161
- Teaching Pregnant: A Case for Holistic Pedagogy / Amy Spangler Gerald 179
- A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching through the Expectant Body / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders 187
- At Home at Work: Confining and Defining Pregnancy in the Academy / Allison Giffen 199
- Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms / Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Debra A. Moddelmog 209
- Dangerous Responses / Michelle Cox, Katherine E. Tirabassi 235
- Afterword: My Teacher's Body / Madeleine R. Grumet 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791457656
- 0791457664
- OCLC:
- 51519705
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