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Title The teacher's body : embodiment, authority, and identity in the academy / edited by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes
Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword, Bodies enter the classroom / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Teacher's body / Betty Smith Franklin -- On the desk : dwarfism, teaching, and the body / Scott Andrew Smith -- Body teaching / Cortney Davis -- Teaching women's studies, e-mailing cancer / Carolyn DiPalma -- Johnny Mnemonic meets the bimbo : feminist pedagogy and postmodern performance / Diane Price Herndl -- "I've got a blind prof" : the place of blindness in the academy / Rod Michalko -- My body, myself : a quadriplegic's perception of and approach to teaching / Richard Radtke with James Skouge -- Day the foreign devil came to class : my teaching body in China / Pam Whitfield -- Walking on thin ice : the il/legitimacy of race and racial issues in the classroom / Simone A. James Alexander -- Moving bodies / Petra Kuppers -- Dancing revolution : a meditation on teaching and aging / Brenda Daly -- Enforcing diversity and living with disability : learning from my first teaching year / Ray Pence -- "Sisterly camaraderie" and other queer friendships : a gay teacher interacting with straight students / Jonathan Alexander
Teaching pregnant : a case for holistic pedagogy / Amy Spangler Gerald -- Vessel of possibilities : teaching through the expectant body / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders -- At home at work : confining and defining pregnancy in the academy / Allison Giffen -- Coming out pedagogy : risking identity in language and literature classrooms / Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Moddelmog -- Dangerous responses / Michelle Cox and Katherine E. Tirabassi -- Afterword, My teacher's body / Madeleine R. Grumet
Summary Annotation A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional
Analysis Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject College teaching -- Social aspects -- United States
Teachers with disabilities -- United States -- Psychology
Teacher-student relationships -- United States
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College teaching -- Social aspects
Teacher-student relationships
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Freedman, Diane P.
Stoddard Holmes, Martha.
LC no. 2003040472
ISBN 1417500921
9781417500925
0791457656
9780791457658
0791457664
9780791457665
9780791486641
0791486648