Women, education, and the self : a Foucauldian perspective / Maria Tamboukou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tamboukou, Maria, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and education--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Feminism and education.

Critical pedagogy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Critical pedagogy.

Sex role--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Sex role.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

Maria Tamboukou links Foucauldian ideas to feminism and education. Its central argument is that the Foucauldian notion of "technologies of the self" needs to be gendered and contextualized. This argument is pursued through a genealogical analysis of autobiographical texts of women educators in the UK at the turn of the nineteenth century. This is a new theoretical approach, since Foucault's work has proved to be of great interest to feminist scholars but as yet, his theories have only intermittently been used in educational feminist work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-194) and indexes.

ISBN:

1403901236

OCLC:

52178569