Subject to Fiction: Women Teaches' Life History Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Resistance (Feminist Educational Thinking Series) - Hardcover

Munro, Petra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335200796 ISBN 13: 9780335200795

Publisher: Open Univ Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Situated within current feminist/poststructuralist theories regarding the subject, this book focuses on the lives of three women teachers and their narrative strategies to author themselves as active agents within and against the essentializing discourses of teaching. The text argues that the complex and contradictory ways in which these women construct themselves as subjects, while simultaneously disrupting the notion of a unitary subject, point to new ways of thinking about subjectivity, resistance, power and agency. The implications of this, alleged, reconceptualization for feminist theorizing, curriculum theory and life history research are woven throughout the book.

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About the Author

PETRA MUNRO is Assistant Professor of Education at Louisiana State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0335200796
• ISBN 13: 9780335200795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 153