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ERIC Number: EJ738313
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 12
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0882-4843
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A Room of Our Own: Girls, Feminism, and Schooling
Gonick, Marnina; Shannon, Laura; Allison, Amy
Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, v16 n2 p138-149 2006
Written in the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf's essay, "A Room of One's Own," invites its readers to join her in search of the answer to the question of "women and fiction," and in the process the readers are treated to a piercingly articulate perspective on the condition of women in a world culture built on women's exclusion and subordination. Although it is true that unlike in Woolf's time, girls' education is no longer dependent on the fortunes of a Mrs. Seton who might bequeath a college and library for young women. The issues of the relationships between education, creativity, and women's access to privacy, space, and resources remain deeply relevant. This article tells the story of the creation of a Women's Health Resource Center in an alternative high school in State College, Pennsylvania, from three perspectives. Laura, a twelfth-grade student at the time, decided to establish the center as part of her graduation requirements. Her English teacher, Amy, supervised her project, and a recently-hired faculty member in the College of Education and Women's Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University, Marnina, served as a resource person to the center. Shifting and merging between and among the voices and narrative, theories and practices of engaging in feminist work in schools are woven together, and in the process both are inflected with powerful contradictions and possibilities. (Contains 7 endnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
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