Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life

Carmen Luke is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is the author of Pedagogy, Printing, and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood, also published by SUNY Press; and Constructing the Child Viewer: The Discourse on TV and Children, 1950-1980; TV and Your Child; and co-editor of Feminisms and Critical Pedagogy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionCarmen LukePART I: Learning Identities and Differences 1. Learning Identities and DifferencesPatricia Dudgeon, Darlene Oxenham, and Glenis Grogan2. Women and Friendships: Pedagogies of Care and RelationalityElisabeth Porter3. Motherhood as Pedagogy: Developmental Psychology and the Accounts of Mothers of Young ChildrenAnne Woollett and Ann Phoenix4. Learning to Be a Man: Dilemmas and Contradictions of Masculine ExperienceDavid Morgan PART II: Popular Culture as Public Pedagogy 5. Hunger as IdeologySusan Bordo6. "Girls' Mags" and the Pedagogical Formation of the GirlKerry Carrington and Anna Bennett7. Childhood and Parenting in Children's Popular Culture and Childcare MagazinesCarmen Luke8. Play for ProfitSusan Willis9. Women in the Holocene: Ethnicity, Fantasy, and the Film The Joy Luck ClubRey ChowPART III: Pedagogies of Academic and Legal Discourse 10. The Pedagogy of ShameSandra Lee Bartky11. Reconsidering the Notions of Voice and Experience in Critical PedagogyAnneliese Kramer-Dahl12. Legal Pedagogy as Authorized Silence(s)Zillah Eisenstein13. Everyday Life in the Academy: Postmodernist Feminisms, Generic Seductions, Rewriting and Being HeardTerry ThreadgoldContributorsIndex

"It is widely believed that children enter school with femininities, masculinities and other social subjectivities constituted in their homes and communities through a variety of everyday practices. These common practices have rarely been designated as pedagogies, but do have the form and intent of practices that are associated with schooling. This volume fills a current gap in gender and policy studies and curriculum and teaching by demonstrating the role of the pedagogies of everyday life in individuals' development."By placing pedagogy in a wider context, this book complements and goes beyond the current school-based focus of feminist and critical pedagogies. The scholarship is international, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural in scope." — Linda K. Christian-Smith, The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh"I like Luke's rationale for the book—that the teaching of and learning of feminine identities are constructed in a variety of transgressive and normative models in public discourses. I haven't found anything like this that brings together some of these overlapping and disparate discourses on women's identity formation—Luke does in a very imaginative and sometimes provocative way."What she postulates is a wide open reading of pedagogy—that we have learned from and have been taught by not just parents and teachers, but cinema, books and magazines, peers, the law, psychological theories, and toys and play." — Delese Wear, author of The Center of the Web: Women and Solitude and co-author of Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in literature