Writing the Motherline Mothers, Daughters, and Education

by O'Brien, Leigh M.; Swadener, Beth Blue; Swadener, Beth Blue; Novinger, Sue; Monroe-Baillargeon, Ann; Lamorey, Suzanne; Sondel, Emile Bloch; Bloch, Marianne Nieman; Jipson, Janice; Jipson, Jennifer; Whitaker, Martha L.; Schmidt, Erin L.; Turner, Caroline S

• ISBN13: 9780761835073
• ISBN10: 0761835075
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-02
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This co-edited volume considers the mother-daughter bond through maternal storytelling or narrative and the Motherline. The narratives foreground the theory that a strong mother-daughter connection leads to empowerment, and attempt to link that connection with education. Using counter-narratives to patriarchal framings of family, this collection affirms the power of women educators telling and reading their stories as a means of self-discovery, empowerment, and, ultimately, cultural transformation.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Women Educators in the Red Tent	p. xi
Critical Experiences of Teacher Educators Mothering and Grandmothering Girls
My Daughter, My Self: On being a Teacher Educator and the Mother of a Daughter with "Special Needs"	p. 3
Being Hannah's Grandma: Negotiating the Intersections between Grandmothering and Teaching	p. 25
Moral Feminists: Caring for Themselves and Others	p. 41
Stories I Tell My Daughter	p. 55
The Impacts of Academe on Two Generations of Women
Cultural Histories and Multi-generational Tales: The Power of Stories by Mothers and Their Daughters	p. 65
Two Sides of the Story: Living an Academic Life	p. 83
Two Gendered Journeys: Finding Our Way(s)	p. 97
Mothers and Daughters Address Inequities: From Our Spheres of Influence	p. 113
Teaching, Learning, and Living Social Justice Activism
Square Pegs in Hand-Crafted Holes: Developing Caring Teacher-Student Relations in U.S. Secondary Schools	p. 133
Who Could Be Against Social Justice? Reflections on Our First Twenty Years Together in Activism	p. 145
Ferocious Tenderness: Passing on a Legacy of Activism or The Nazis are Marching and my Daughter Wants to Protest	p. 157
Editors' Biographical Sketches	p. 169
About the Contributors	p. 171
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