Apple Jumper, Teacher Babe, and Bland Uniformer Teachers

Fashioning Feminine Teacher Bodies

Bibliographic Data

ID8923692
AuthorsBecky Atkinson (0000-0002-4219-6967, University of Alabama, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume44
Issue2
Pages98-121
Publication date2008-10-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131940802368372
OpenAlexW2069393094
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

A student teacher group's conversation about teacher clothing as reflective of certain kinds of reprehensible or desirable teacher identities provoked the writing of this article. I use a feminist poststructuralist analysis to explore the three categories of women teachers' dress suggested by the student teachers as signifiers of women teachers' subjectivities discursively produced within the contexts of schooling. The article also challenges the three categories as constructions produced by this student teacher group in their positionality as young, White, middle-class, heterosexual female novice teachers in the Southeast region of the United States. This inquiry highlights the limitations and constrictions of women teachers' institutionalized subjectivities and suggests ways in which these limitations and constrictions offer sites for resistance, specifically in relation to clothing choices that shape and reflect a feminine teacher body

Class (philosophy · Clothing · Conversation · Epistemology · Masculinity · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Teacher education · White (mutation · Communication · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Psychology

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