The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy

The Teacher\'s Body......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Foreword: Bodies Enter the Classroom by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes......Page 18
The Teacher’s Body by Betty Smith Franklin......Page 32
On the Desk: Dwarfism,Teaching, and the Body by Scott Andrew Smith......Page 40
Body Teaching by Cortney Davis......Page 52
Teaching Women’s Studies, E-Mailing Cancer by Carolyn DiPalma......Page 58
Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance by Diane Price Herndl......Page 76
“I’ve Got a Blind Prof ”: The Place of Blindness in the Academy by Rod Michalko......Page 86
My Body, Myself: A Quadriplegic’s Perception of and Approach to Teaching by Richard Radtke with James Skouge......Page 100
The Day the Foreign Devil Came to Class: My Teaching Body in China by Pam Whitfield......Page 116
Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the Classroom by Simone A. James Alexander......Page 122
Moving Bodies by Petra Kuppers......Page 136
Dancing Revolution: A Meditation on Teaching and Aging by Brenda Daly......Page 140
Enforcing Diversity and Living with Disability: Learning from My First Teaching Year by Ray Pence......Page 162
A “Sisterly Camaraderie” and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight Students by Jonathan Alexander......Page 178
Teaching Pregnant: A Case for Holistic Pedagogy by Amy Spangler Gerald......Page 196
A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching through the Expectant Body by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders......Page 204
At Home at Work: Confining and Defining Pregnancy in the Academy by Allison Giffen......Page 216
Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms by Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Moddelmog......Page 226
Dangerous Responses by Michelle Cox and Katherine E. Tirabassi......Page 252
Afterword: MyTeacher’s Body by Madeleine R. Grumet......Page 266
Epilogue by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes......Page 276
Contributors......Page 278
B......Page 284
D......Page 285
F......Page 286
I......Page 287
M......Page 288
P......Page 289
S......Page 290
Z......Page 291