Challenging Public Perceptions of Childcare Teachers through Cixous's "écriture feminine"

Autor/in	Chang-Kredl, Sandra
Titel	Challenging Public Perceptions of Childcare Teachers through Cixous's "écriture feminine"
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 30 (2018) 2, S.259-272 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2016.1203885
Schlagwörter	Preschool Teachers; Child Caregivers; Foreign Countries; Sex Role; Gender Differences; Films; Feminism; Fairy Tales; Professional Identity; Popular Culture; Human Body; Mothers; Sexuality; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Geschlechterrolle; Geschlechterkonflikt; Film; Feminismus; Fairy tale; Fairytale; Fairytales; Fairy-tale; Fairy-tales; Märchen; Popkultur; Menschlicher Körper; Mother; Mutter; Sexualität; Kanada
Abstract	Cultural stories provide us with a repertoire of narratives through which we interpret and construct our understandings of the world, including our gendered understandings of the early childhood teacher. Through her notion of "écriture feminine", Cixous [1976. "The Laugh of the Medusa." Trans K. Cohen and P. Cohen. "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society" 1 (4): 875-893] wrote of countering systems of cultural texts that inscribe women as "other". In this paper, I conduct a critical analysis of Disney's "Maleficent" (2014), a recent and often deemed feminist adaptation of the "Sleeping Beauty" tale, to inform our understanding of the challenges faced in rewriting public perceptions of the childcare teacher in Canada today. The early childhood teacher is often constrained within gendered expectations and attempts to revise the ways society values their professional status have yet to be achieved. The analysis suggests that "Maleficent" offers positive directions for change, however persistent constraints on feminine identities may be particularly difficult to retract in women whose work involves significant caring and other-directedness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01