Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths

by Linda Christian-Smith; Kristine S. Kellor

• ISBN13: 9780813334615
• ISBN10: 0813334616
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

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.Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academyis 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. Offering 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. Topics examined include: the ways home and domestic matters impinge on academic life; the constraints on women becoming educated; the contradictions surrounding teaching and teaching practices; the background factors that shape research and writing; and women's activism within and beyond the academy.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
References	p. xvi
Feminism in New Times	p. 1
References	p. 14
Unsettling Academic/Feminist Identity	p. 17
References	p. 23
Her-Story: Life History as a Strategy of Resistance to Being Constituted Woman in Academe	p. 25
Notes	p. 42
References	p. 43
Strangers in a Strange Land: a Woman Studying Women's Literacies	p. 45
References	p. 57
The Backlash Factor: Women, Intellectual Labour and Student Evaluation of Courses and Teaching	p. 59
Notes	p. 78
References	p. 81
Can Feminist Voices Survive and Transform the Academy?	p. 83
References	p. 107
Deconstructing Feminist Pedagogy: Seeing That Which is Ordinarily Obscured by the Familiar	p. 109
References	p. 126
Notes	p. 126
Asian Women Leaders of Higher Education: Stories of Strength and Self Discovery	p. 129
References	p. 144
Dancing on the Sharp Edge of the Sword: Women Faculty of Color in White Academe	p. 147
Notes	p. 168
References	p. 169
Negotiating Daily Life in the Academy and at Home	p. 175
Feeling Blue, Seeing Red, and Turning Fifty: Moving in from the Margins	p. 191
References	p. 215
Against the Grain: Reflections on the Construction of Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths	p. 219
References	p. 230
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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