ERIC Number: EJ718684
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Publication Date: 2005
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Reflections on the No-Uterus Rule: Pregnancy, Academia, and Feminist Pedagogy
Shope, Janet Hinson
Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, v16 n1 p53-60 2005
This essay relays the author's own pregnancy story to illustrate how academia traditionally reinforces the mind/body dualism by adhering to the no-uterus rule: a gender blind, antibody approach that treats persons as if they do not occupy a body in time and space. Her experience reveals the problems disembodied approaches to knowledge pose for faculty and students. In this essay, the author also discusses the implications of adopting an embodied feminist pedagogy in the classroom.
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Feminism, Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
University of Illinois Press, 1325 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6903. Tel: 217-333-0950.
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Language: English
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