Women, Education and the Self: A Foucauldian Perspective
Maria Tamboukou links Foucauldian ideas to feminism and education. Its central argument is that the Foucauldian notion of "technologies of the self" needs to be gendered and contextualized. This argument is pursued through a genealogical analysis of autobiographical texts of women educators in the UK at the turn of the nineteenth century. This is a new theoretical approach, since Foucault's work has proved to be of great interest to feminist scholars but as yet, his theories have only...
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Maria Tamboukou links Foucauldian ideas to feminism and education. Its central argument is that the Foucauldian notion of "technologies of the self" needs to be gendered and contextualized. This argument is pursued through a genealogical analysis of autobiographical texts of women educators in the UK at the turn of the nineteenth century. This is a new theoretical approach, since Foucault's work has proved to be of great interest to feminist scholars but as yet, his theories have only intermittently been used in educational feminist work.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Situated Histories of the Female Self11Feminist Genealogies in the Writing of the Self62Spacing the Female Self: Tracing Heterotopias523Erasing Sexuality from the Blackboard? Recovering the Silence of Bodies1034What is Our Present Today? Genealogies as Histories of the Present1345Technologies of the Female Self154Notes179Bibliography184Index of Names195Index of Subjects197
