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Working the Ruins Feminist Poststructural Theory and Methods in Education

Edited By Elizabeth St. Pierre, Wanda Pillow Copyright 2000
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge
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    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.

    Introduction: Inquiry among the Ruins PART I Interruptions 1. “The Question of Belief”: Writing Poststructural Ethnography 2. What’s Going On? Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Postmodernism 3. This Ethnography Called My Back:Writings of the Exotic Gaze,“Othering” Latina,and Recuperating Xicanisma 4. Researching “My People,” Researching Myself: Fragments of a Reflexive Tale 5. Researching Libraries, Literacies, and Lives: A Rhizoanalysis 6. Electronic Tools for Dismantling the Master’s House: Poststructuralist Feminist Research and Hypertext Poetics PART II: Disciplines and Pleasures 7. Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life 8. Laughing within Reason: On Pleasure, Women, and Academic Performance 9. Eclipsing the Constitutive Power of Discourse: The Writing of Janette Turner Hospital 10. Exposed Methodology: The Body as a Deconstructive Practice PART III: Figurations 11. Feminist Figurations: Gossip as a Counter discourse 12. White Noise—the Sound of Epidemic: Reading/Writing a Climate of Intelligibility around the “Crisis” of Difference 13. Nomadic Inquiry in the Smooth Spaces of the Field: A Preface 14. Drawing the Line at Angels: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography

    Biography

    is Assistant Professor in Language Education at the University of Georgia.Wanda Pillowis Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Illinois.

    "Makes a solid and exciting contribution...The essays are fresh and exploratory...The range of topics is exciting." -- Alice Pitt, York University
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