Women, Education and the Self

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Situated Histories of the Female Self

   • Maria Tamboukou

   Pages 1-5

3. Feminist Genealogies in the Writing of the Self

   • Maria Tamboukou

   Pages 6-51

4. Spacing the Female Self: Tracing Heterotopias

   • Maria Tamboukou

   Pages 52-102

5. Erasing Sexuality from the Blackboard? Recovering the Silence of Bodies

   • Maria Tamboukou

   Pages 103-133

6. What is Our Present Today? Genealogies as Histories of the Present

   • Maria Tamboukou

   Pages 134-153

7. Technologies of the Female Self

   • Maria Tamboukou

   Pages 154-178

8. Back Matter

   Pages 179-202

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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.

• education
• feminism
• gender
• Self
• women
• work
• writing

'Genealogies are much written 'about' but seldom done. Maria Tamboukou's work is an exciting and innovative genealogy of women educators, full of insights into their lives. It is Foucauldian scholarship at its best, working both as a substantive history and as a guide to the genealogical method. Maria Tamboukou shows us what a genealogical history can look like and what it can do.' - Stephen J Ball, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, University of London, Institute of Education, UK

'...is entertaining, rigorous, and useful as a research exemplar'. - Sue Middleton, Gender and Education

• Centre for Narrative Research in the Social Sciences, University of East London, United Kingdom

  Maria Tamboukou

MARIA TAMBOUKOU is Senior Lectuer in Psychosocial Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Narrative Research in the Social Sciences, University of East London, UK. She received her PhD from King's College, University of London, UK. Her publications and research interests are in the sociology of gender and education, gender and space and the exploration of foucauldian and deleuzian analytics and the use of auto/biographical narratives in research. She is co-editor with Stephen J. Ball of Dangerous Encounters: Genealogy and Ethnography.

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