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

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.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.

Contents:

Front Cover

The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy

Copyright

Table of Contents

Foreword: Bodies Enter the Classroom - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes

Works Cited and Further Reading

The Teacher's Body - Betty Smith Franklin

Works Cited

On the Desk: Dwarfism, Teaching, and the Body - Scott Andrew Smith

Body Teaching - Cortney Davis

Teaching Women's Studies, E-Mailing Cancer - Carolyn DiPalma

Notes

Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance - Diane Price Herndl

Postscript: The Bimbo on Chemo

Performing the Embodied Subject

"I've Got a Blind Prof": The Place of Blindness in the Academy - Rod Michalko

The Prof's Blind, He Can't See!

I See, Therefore I Know

The Echo of Blindness

My Body, Myself: A Quadriplegic's Perception of and Approach to Teaching - Richard Radtke with James Skouge

Personal History

The Puffin's Return

Assistive Technology

Service Dogs and Attendant Care

The Day the Foreign Devil Came to Class: MyTeaching Body in China - Pam Whitfield

Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the Classroom - Simone A. James Alexander

English 101

From Body Politics to Classroom Politics

Evaluations: A Marker of Competence?

Bridging the Divide: Classroom Versus Institution

Moving Bodies - Petra Kuppers

Melting

Contact

Blocking

Flowing

Touching

Shifting

Dancing Revolution: A Meditation on Teaching and Aging - Brenda Daly

Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching Year - Ray Pence

Works Cited.

A "Sisterly Camaraderie" and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight Students - Jonathan Alexander

Teaching Pregnant: A Case for Holistic Pedagogy - Amy Spangler Gerald

A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching through the Expectant Body - Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

At Home at Work: Confining and Defining Pregnancy in the Academy - Allison Giffen

Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms - Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Moddelmog

Coming In, Coming Out, Passing

Taking Risks and Acting Out: The Case of "Special Topics" Courses

Risky Pedagogy in (Relatively) Safe Classes

Risky Rewards and Reltions, or, Why Do It This Way?

Dangerous Responses - Michelle Cox and Katherine E. Tirabassi

A Look Backward

Final Reflections...

Afterword: My Teacher's Body - Madeleine R. Grumet

Epilogue - Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8664-8

1-4175-0092-1

OCLC:

54769732