Our Bodies Tell the Story : Using Feminist Research and Friendship to Reimagine Education and Our Lives / Emily J. Klein and Monica Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Emily J., author.

Taylor, Monica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Biographical methods.

Feminist theory--Research.

Women's studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gorham, ME : Myers Education Press, LLC, [2018]

Summary:

Our Bodies Tell the Story: Using Feminist Research and Friendship to Reimagine Education and Our Livesasks (and answers) a number of critical questions that are key to improving our educational system. How can we use our embodied stories to navigate and disrupt how schools and society reproduce the patriarchy and heteronormativity within our institutions of learning? How do we transgress oppressive boundaries (boundaries cultivated by the patriarchy that have been perpetuated at home, within school, outside of school, in university settings, and in communities) that permit our dehumanization and exclusion? As teachers, professors, and teacher educators, how do we navigate our students' trauma when we are navigating the re-ignition of our own? This book sets out to tell the story of how the authors have tried to answer these questions in their lives and work. It is the story of a friendship, a partnership, a narrative retelling of their "becoming" as girls, teenagers, women, teachers, wives, daughters, scholars, and mothers. From the earliest memories of their gendered and sexualized childhoods to the present navigation of sexism, heteronormativity, and trauma in the context of teaching and schools, these stories reside in their bodies. They recall, construct, and reexamine, emerging from their dialogues--from talking face-to-face, to email, to FB messenger, poetry, and text. Our Bodies Tell the Storycenters around the co/autoethnography of personal narratives, stories, and a kind of survival testimonies, the ways in which the authors bore witness to each other's lives.The book extensively uses co/autoethnography as a self-study feminist research methodology that takes autoethnography, "a form of self-representation that complicates cultural norms by seeing autobiography as implicated in larger cultural processes" (Taylor Public Purposes of Schooling Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Critical Feminisms in Teacher Education Gender Issues in Teacher Education

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Letting Our Bodies Tell the Story: An Introduction

Chapter Two: A Feminist Embodied: Co/autoethnography of Two Friends

Chapter Three: Childhood: Becoming Girls

Chapter Four: Performing Adolescence

Chapter Five: Becoming Teachers: Addressing Trauma and Emotions in the Classroom

Chapter Six: Womanhood: On Aging Bodies, Beauty, and Academic Mothering

Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Living A Feminist Life and Disrupting the Patriarchy

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Klein, Emily J. Our Bodies Tell the Story

ISBN:

9781975502577

1975502574

OCLC:

1357015574