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The teacher's body : embodiment, authority, and identity in the academy / edited by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes.

Van Pelt Library LB2331 .T317 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Freedman, Diane P.
Stoddard Holmes, Martha.
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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