Full Description
Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy is a thirteen chapter volume which draws on the life experience and varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women's home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, and activism. To provide diverse perspectives on women's experiences of being and knowing in and outside the academy, contributors draw on a range of critical approaches derived from feminism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, critical education theory, discourse theory and analysis, narrative inquiry and life histories. Lately, there has been considerable interest by women in the academy in a discernment process involving an examination of the historically, politically and culturally situated nature of their knowledge of the world, their work in the academy and other activities in which they engage. These examinations, especially in the form of narrative inquiry, life histories and deconstructive language practices such as discourse analysis, figure prominently in breaking silences and giving voice to the many tensions that women experience in the academic workplace and other settings.
Contents
Introduction (Shirley R. Steinberg); Feminisms in New Times (Carmen Luke); Unsettling Academic/Feminist Identity (Jennifer Gore); Her-Story: Life History as a Strategy of Resistance to Being Constituted Woman in the Academy (Kristine. S. Kellor); A Stranger in a Strange Land: A Woman Studying Womens Literacies (Linda K. Christian-Smith); The Backlash Factor: Women, Intellectual Labour and Student Evaluations of Courses and Teaching (Magda Lewis); Can Femininist Voices and Still Survive and Transform the Academy? (Ava McCall); Deconstructing Femininist Pedagogy: Seeing That Which Is Ordinarily Obscured by the Familiar (Janice Jipson and Petra Munro); Asian Women Leaders in Higher Education: Stories of Strength and Self-Discovery (Lori Ideta and Joanne Cooper); Dancing on the Sharp Edge of the Sword: Women Faculty of Color in Academe (Frances Rains); Negotiating Daily Life in the Academy and at Home (Jean I. Erdman); Feeling Blue, Seeing Red and Turning Fifty: Moving in from the Margins (Sue Middleton); Against the Grain: Reflections on the Construction of Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths (Linda K. Christian-Smith and Kristine S. Kellor)
