
Subject to Fiction
Peter Munro(Author)
Open University Press
Published on 16. April 1998
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-335-20079-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Illustrations
references, index
ISBN-13
978-0-335-20079-5 (9780335200795)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction - impossible fictions; the life of theory; Agnes - "It is not what you teach, but who you are"; Cleo - "I could have lived another life and been just as happy"; Bonnie - "Being a teacher is like being a fish out of water"; rewriting a life.