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This book is a cross-cultural, gendered study of both self and curriculum. Initiating a conversation between and among Michel Foucault, Confucius, and Julia Kristeva, it searches for a new (third) cultural and psychic space of transformation and creativity. Weaving together philosophy, psychoanalysis, and autobiography through lived experiences of curriculum, it calls for new configurations of subjectivity at the intersection of culture and gender, through the meeting between selfhood and the human psyche, in the dynamics of the semiotic and the symbolic, and through the interaction between the Western subject and the Chinese self. These multiple layers of inquiry provide unique perspectives for readers who are interested in curriculum theory, feminist analysis, philosophy of education, or East/West dialogue.

The Author: Hongyu Wang is Assistant Professor in Curriculum Studies at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum theory from Louisiana State University. In addition to co-authored books and published articles in Chinese, she is a co-editor of The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies (Peter Lang, 2003).