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ERIC Number: EJ814528
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Sep
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-1946
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Apple Jumper, Teacher Babe, and Bland Uniformer Teachers: Fashioning Feminine Teacher Bodies
Atkinson, Becky
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v44 n2 p98-121 Sep 2008
A student teacher group's conversation about teacher clothing as reflective of certain kinds of reprehensible or desirable teacher identities provoked the writing of this article. I use a feminist poststructuralist analysis to explore the three categories of women teachers' dress suggested by the student teachers as signifiers of women teachers' subjectivities discursively produced within the contexts of schooling. The article also challenges the three categories as constructions produced by this student teacher group in their positionality as young, White, middle-class, heterosexual female novice teachers in the Southeast region of the United States. This inquiry highlights the limitations and constrictions of women teachers' institutionalized subjectivities and suggests ways in which these limitations and constrictions offer sites for resistance, specifically in relation to clothing choices that shape and reflect a feminine teacher body.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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