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Mothering a Bodied Curriculum

Emplacement, Desire, Affect

Stephanie Springgay editor Debra Freedman editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:7th Mar '12

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This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' – a practice that attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of ‘being-with’ other bodies differently, and to the different knowledges such bodily encounters produce.

Contributors argue that the prevailing silence about the maternal body in educational scholarship reinforces the binary split between domestic and public spaces, family life and work, one's own children and others' children, and women's roles as ‘mothers’ or ‘others.’ Providing an interdisciplinary perspective in which postmodern ideas about the body interact with those of learning and teaching, Mothering a Bodied Curriculum brings theory and practice together into an ever-evolving conversation.

‘This edited book is original both in its topic and execution, the editors have taken a very creative approach to the problem of how to construct and produce a book on this challenging and cutting edge topic.’

-- Marek Tesar * Alberta Journal of Educational Research vol 60:02:20

ISBN: 9781442643741

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm

Weight: 680g

336 pages