Without a Word
eBook - ePub

Without a Word

Teaching Beyond Women's Silence

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Without a Word

Teaching Beyond Women's Silence

About this book

The question of women's silence within academic settings has received a great deal of attention. And much feminist educational scholarship has devoted itself to creating spaces where women's stories and experiences can be told. Without a Word (first published in 1993) raises the question of women's silence from a radical new perspective, lending at long last a theoretical basis and sophistication to this important issue.

The author considers the subject of silence from a variety of conceptual and practical perspectives. When does silene occur among women? How does it emerge? What are its complex origins? What are its devastating effects? Lewis also discusses the different types of silence: the one which is an expression of a woman's oppression and the one which is her act of revolt.

Actual classroom interactions, student experiences, literary and filmic depictions of women, and her own personal voice are the material from which Lewis crafts her powerful theory. Intended to offer an understanding of the subject which can help feminists and teachers struggling to change the nature and dynamics of classroom experience for all students, Without a Word dramatizes the issue of silence in a way that moves beyond the mere need for women to speak and be heard. This book is a must read for students and researchers of education, feminist studies, women studies, and sociology.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032854502
eBook ISBN
9781040144480

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Endorsements
  8. Contents
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Beginnings
  11. 2 Framing Women and Silence: Disrupting the Hierarchy Of Discursive Practices
  12. 3 Taking (Our) Place In The Academy
  13. 4 Learning Femininity: Schooling And The Struggle For Self
  14. 5 De/Siring The Text: Feminist Student In The Classroom
  15. 6 Interrupting Patriarchy: Feminist Teacher In The Classroom
  16. 7 After The Words
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index