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Overview"Challenges the ways ""lesbian academics"" have been socially constructed." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan TalburtPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9780791445723ISBN 10: 0791445720 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 09 March 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments 1. Haunted Questions, Inhabited Spaces Seeking to Found a Locatin: The Gay Academic Union Lesbian Identity Politics: The Limitations of Full Disclosure Identity into Practice Intellectual Practice among the Ruins Delimiting Lesbian Academic Spaces Entering the Inquiry Narrative Knowing as Practice 2. Social and Institutional Places and Spaces Entering Oasis and Liberal U: Island Communities Finding a Place for Diversity Centering Gays and Lesbians Centering Liberal U: ""The Circles in Which We Move"" Confessing Sins: The Work of Faculty Locating Knowledges and Identities 3. Displacing Pedagogical Positionings Opening Scenes Im/Personal Pedagogies Carol: Critical Enlightenment Cross-Directions: Carol's Performances of Authority and Identity Julie: Complications as Response Stirring Them Up: Julie's ""Particular Kind of Embodiment"" Olivia: Is There a Text in This Class? ""We Can't Reduce the Play [or Olivia] to One Message"" Less Euclidean Spaces 4. Departmental Academic and Social Knowledges Other/Same Julie and the Liminal Gap Carol and Shifting Authority Olivia and the Performance of Locations Appropriation and Practice 5. Lesbian/Intellectual Olivia: ""The Cranky Lesbian Critic"" Carol: ""You Don't Just Stay in a Place and Wallow in It"" Julie: ""Responding to a Real Concrete Problem"" Exceeding Locations: Practices of the Self Queer Ethnographic Spaces Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews"""A carefully conceived, brilliantly executed piece of work."" - William F. Pinar, coeditor of Understanding Curriculum as Racial Text: Representations of Identity and Difference in Education ""...by means of elegantly executed fieldwork, Talburt has produced a compelling portrait of the practices that both constitute, and are constituted by, successful female academics who are ambivalent about taking up lesbian identity in their professional culture."" - Qualitative Studies in Education ""The combination of respect for participant stories and sophisticated methodological understanding of the limits of 'authenticity' and 'voice' kept me turning the pages. The crisis of representation cuts across disciplines. This book enacts a way to use the ruins of correspondence theories of the real as a fruitful site for practices of doing and reporting feminist qualitative research that is lively, readable, and focused."" - Patti Lather, author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy within the Postmodern ""I find this book compelling on a number of levels. Perhaps most interesting to me are the ways in which the author renders complex performances that depict three very different women-each a 'lesbian academic'-putting the codified space of the academy to new uses, thereby engendering new modes of thought that bring us beyond identity categories, visibility politics and a reliance on tropes of voice. These are extraordinary achievements."" -Paula M. Salvio, University of New Hampshire" A carefully conceived, brilliantly executed piece of work. - William F. Pinar, coeditor of Understanding Curriculum as Racial Text: Representations of Identity and Difference in Education ...by means of elegantly executed fieldwork, Talburt has produced a compelling portrait of the practices that both constitute, and are constituted by, successful female academics who are ambivalent about taking up lesbian identity in their professional culture. - Qualitative Studies in Education The combination of respect for participant stories and sophisticated methodological understanding of the limits of 'authenticity' and 'voice' kept me turning the pages. The crisis of representation cuts across disciplines. This book enacts a way to use the ruins of correspondence theories of the real as a fruitful site for practices of doing and reporting feminist qualitative research that is lively, readable, and focused. - Patti Lather, author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy within the Postmodern I find this book compelling on a number of levels. Perhaps most interesting to me are the ways in which the author renders complex performances that depict three very different women-each a 'lesbian academic'-putting the codified space of the academy to new uses, thereby engendering new modes of thought that bring us beyond identity categories, visibility politics and a reliance on tropes of voice. These are extraordinary achievements. -Paula M. Salvio, University of New Hampshire Author InformationSusan Talburt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She is coeditor of Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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