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A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.
These highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort, disempowerment, and/or enlightenment that emerge when we discard the fiction that the teacher has no body. Visible and/or invisible, the body can transform both the teacher's experience and classroom dynamics. When students think the teacher's body is clearly marked by ethnicity, race, disability, size, gender, sexuality, illness, age, pregnancy, class, linguistic and geographic origins, or some combination of these, both the mode and the content of education can change. Other, less visible aspects of a teacher's body, such as depression or a history of sexual assault, can have an equally powerful impact on how we teach and learn. The collection anatomizes these moments of embodied pedagogy as unexpected teaching opportunities and examines their apparent impact on teacher-student educational dynamics of power, authority, desire, friendship, open-mindedness, and resistance.
Foreword: Bodies Enter the Classroom
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes
The Teacher's Body
Betty Smith Franklin
On the Desk: Dwarfism, Teaching, and the Body
Scott Andrew Smith
Body Teaching
Cortney Davis
Teaching Women's Studies, E-Mailing Cancer
Carolyn DiPalma
Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance
Diane Price Herndl
"I've Got a Blind Prof": The Place of Blindness in the Academy
Rod Michalko
My Body, Myself: A Quadriplegic's Perception of and Approach to Teaching
Richard Radtke with James Skouge
The Day the Foreign Devil Came to Class: My Teaching Body in China
Pam Whitfield
Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the Classroom
Simone A. James Alexander
Moving Bodies
Petra Kuppers
Dancing Revolution: A Meditation on Teaching and Aging
Brenda Daly
Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching Year
Ray Pence
A "Sisterly Camaraderie" and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight Students
Jonathan Alexander
Teaching Pregnant: A Case for Holistic Pedagogy
Amy Spangler Gerald
A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching through the Expectant Body
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
At Home at Work: Confining and Defining Pregnancy in the Academy
Allison Giffen
Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms
Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Moddelmog
Dangerous Responses
Michelle Cox and Katherine E. Tirabassi
Afterword: My Teacher's Body
Madeleine R. Grumet
Epilogue
Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes
List of Contributors
Index