Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
From some of the leading feminist scholars in education comes a collection of writings discussing how they use feminist poststructural theory in their classrooms and research. Drawing on real-life situations in their work, they show how using this theory has transformed their work. Topics covered include theory in everyday life, ethnography, writing the body, emotions in the classroom, qualitative research, and gossip as a counter-discourse. The range of topics, processes, and styles presented provides the reader with a variety of examples, illustrating the diversity and power of the effects of poststructural theory, as well as showing the possibilities of work still to be done.
Synopsis
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
"Question of belief" : writing poststructural ethnography /Deborah P. Britzman --What's going on? Black feminist thought and the politics of postmodernism /Patricia Hill Collins --This ethnography called my back : writings of the exotic gaze, "othering" Latina, and recuperating Xicanisma /Sofia Villenas --Researching "my people," researching myself : fragments of a reflexive tale /Lubna Nazir Chaudhry --Researching libraries, literacies, and lives : a rhizoanalysis /Donna E. Alvermann --Electronic tools for dismantling the master's house : poststructuralist feminist research and hypertext poetics /Wendy Morgan --Skirting a pleated text : de-disciplining an academic life /Laurel Richardson --Laughing within reason : on pleasure, women, and academic performance /Erica McWilliam --Eclipsing the constitutive power of discourse : the writing of Janette Turner Hospital /Bronwyn Davies --Exposed methodology : the body as a deconstructive practice /Wanda S. Pillow --Feminist figurations : gossip as a counterdiscourse /Mary Leach --White noise-- the sound of epidemic : reading/writing a climate of intelligibility around the "crisis" of difference /Kate McCoy --Nomadic inquiry in the smooth spaces of the field : a preface /Elizabeth A. St.Pierre --Drawing the line at angels : working the ruins of feminist ethnography /Patti Lather.