re-storying the self in the light of contemporary feminist understandings of power and subjectivity
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Hopkins, Lekkie
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, universiteiten, onderwijs, vakbonden, Verenigde Staten, 1990-1999, onderzoek
- Description
- In this paper an attempt is made to uncover the complex processes of re-storying the self in the light of contemporary feminist understandings of subjectivity and power. The author, a feminist teacher and researcher/biographer, explores some dimensions of one student's encounter during 1992-1995 at university. The narrative focus of this paper is both on student's engagement with the learning process and on the author's own experience as a feminist teacher and researcher/biographer. The paper also contains archival material in the form of essays written by the student, and the voices, real and imagined, of several of the other participants in this study. As part of the research into the ways in which the student has taken up feminist knowledges in her journey towards becoming a trade union activist.