Telling Women's Lives

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-335-20173-0
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

This collection brings together the work of scholars exploring the history of women in education in a number of different national settings. The contributors include both established scholars who have completed major studies and younger scholars exploring new directions. All of these writers share an engagement in reflection on the process of history writing and consider the impact of recent theoretical debates on their own scholarship. Their work reflects the influence of feminist theory and poststructuralism, but also of postcolonial theory and theories of the educational state. In these essays, writers address such key issues as the nature of historical evidence, the continuing need to uncover the 'hidden histories' of women as teachers, the ways life history narratives can illuminate women's own conceptions of themselves as women and teachers, the material conditions of teaching as work for women, and the way conceptions of gender have shaped women's experiences in relation to the educational state, the family, class, sexuality and race. These feminist writers also explore the ways they are implicated in the very subject of their research - the educated woman who is also an educator.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiler

Weiler, Kathleen

Middleton, Sue

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part one: Reflections on theory and historical truth
Teachers, memory and oral history
Workers, professionals, pilgrims
tracing Canadian women teachers' histories
Reflections on writing a history of women teachers
Connecting pieces
finding the indigenous presence in the history of women's education
Part two: Narrative inquiries
Disciplining the teaching body 1968-1978
progressive education and feminism in New Zealand
'To cook dinners with love in them'?
sexuality, marital status and women teachers in England and Wales, 1920-1939
Pathways and subjectivities of Portuguese women teachers through life histories
'To do the next needed thing'
Jeanes teachers in the Southern United States 1908-1934
Where Haley stood
Margaret Haley, teachers' work, and the problem of teacher identity
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Weiler teaches at Tufts University. She has co-edited a number of works, including (with Madeleine Arnot) Feminism and Social Justice in Education. She is the author of Women Teaching for Change (1988) and California Schoolwomen (1998).

Sue Middleton has taught at the University of Waikato since 1980, where she is now Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies. She has published widely in New Zealand, Britain, and the United States. Her books include Educating Feminists (1993) and Disciplining Sexuality (1998), both from Teachers' College Press.