Bitter Milk

Women and Teaching

Author: Madeleine R. Grumet
ISBN: 9780870236136

The text is arranged in a pattern that mirrors Grumet's argument that women who teach make this passage between the so-called public and private worlds daily and that is also what we teach children to do. The chapters go back and forth between the experience of domesticity and the experience of teaching, between being with one's own children and being with the children of others, between being the child of one's own mother and the teacher of another mother's child, between feeling and form, family and colleagues. The first and last chapters address the familial relations that fall under the category of reproduction, a frame designed to emphasize the relations of reproduction and their importance to educational theory. The chapters closest to this margin are those that address women's work in schools, and the juxtaposition is chosen to accentuate the dialectical relation of our public and private meanings. The middle chapters are the ones most directly concerned with curriculum, that p

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Publish Date: 1988

Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)