The Teacher's Body

by Freedman, Diane P.; Freedman, Diane P.; Holmes, Martha Stoddard

• ISBN13: 9780791457658
• ISBN10: 0791457656
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Bodies Enter the Classroom	xi
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(14)
Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes
The Teacher's Body	15	(8)
Betty Smith Franklin
On the Desk: Dwarfism, Teaching, and the Body	23	(12)
Scott Andrew Smith
Body Teaching	35	(6)
Cortney Davis
Teaching Women's Studies, E-Mailing Cancer	41	(18)
Carolyn DiPalma
Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance	59	(10)
Diane Price Herndl
"I've Got a Blind Prof": The Place of Blindness in the Academy	69	(14)
Rod Michalko
My Body, Myself: A Quadriplegic's Perception of and Approach to Teaching	83	(16)
Richard Radtke with James Skouge
The Day the Foreign Devil Came to Class: My Teaching Body in China	99	(6)
Pam Whitfield
Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the Classroom	105	(14)
Simone A. James Alexander
Moving Bodies	119	(4)
Petra Kuppers
Dancing Revolution: A Meditation on Teaching and Aging	123	(22)
Brenda Daly
Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching Year	145	(16)
Ray Pence
A "Sisterly Camaraderie" and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight Students	161	(18)
Jonathan Alexander
Teaching Pregnant: A Case for Holistic Pedagogy	179	(8)
Amy Spangler Gerald
A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching through the Expectant Body	187	(12)
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
At Home at Work: Confining and Defining Pregnancy in the Academy	199	(10)
Allison Giffen
Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms	209	(26)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Moddelmog
Dangerous Responses	235	(14)
Michelle Cox and Katherine E. Tirabassi
Afterword: My Teacher's Body	249	(10)
Madeleine R. Grumet
Epilogue	259	(2)
Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes
List of Contributors	261	(6)
Index	267