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Bitter Milk : Women and Teaching / Madeleine R. Grumet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grumet, Madeleine R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women teachers--United States.
- Women teachers.
- Education--Curricula--United States.
- Education.
- Teachers--United States--Psychology.
- Teachers.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Feminist criticism--United States.
- Feminist criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, MA : The University of Massachusetts Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- The text is arranged in a pattern that mirrors Grumet's argument that women who teach make this passage between the so-called public and private worlds daily and that is also what we teach children to do. The chapters go back and forth between the experience of domesticity and the experience of teaching, between being with one's own children and being with the children of others, between being the child of one's own mother and the teacher of another mother's child, between feeling and form, family and colleagues. The first and last chapters address the familial relations that fall under the category of reproduction, a frame designed to emphasize the relations of reproduction and their importance to educational theory. The chapters closest to this margin are those that address women's work in schools, and the juxtaposition is chosen to accentuate the dialectical relation of our public and private meanings. The middle chapters are the ones most directly concerned with curriculum, that provisional ground that Grumet is naming as our mediating space, the place where we can heal. The fundamental argument of this text is that knowledge evolves in human relationships.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Matter.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781613769850
- 1613769857
- OCLC:
- 1396882017
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