Mothers, Learners and Countermemory

Autor/in	Quinn, Jocey
Titel	Mothers, Learners and Countermemory
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 16 (2004) 3, S.365-378 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
Schlagwörter	Females; Mothers; Mother Attitudes; College Students; Feminism; Memory; Mother Role; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Mother; Mutter; Mutterliebe; Collegestudent; Feminismus; Gedächtnis; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	This article explores how issues of learning and mothering emerged in research with women students. First it develops the notion of 'a motherhood standpoint'. It then considers how Foucault's concept of 'counter-memory', and, in particular, its reworking in feminist cultural theory as 'countermemory', can be used to explain why students persistently called up the mother when talking about themselves as learners, revealing this as both a political and psychic process. The mother can be seen as a double figure who represents both knowledge and its limits. The following analysis of student accounts demonstrates the tension between retelling their mother's memories, to bear witness to the educational injustice meted out to women, and their own memories of mothers, whom they are trying to escape to make an independent claim of knowledge. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10