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Mother-Scholar

Part of the Transgressions Book Series (volume 85)

Editors: Lapayese, Yvette V.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6091-891-9

Publisher: SensePublishers - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2012

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Chapter 1Mother-Scholar

Lapayese, Yvette V.

Pages: 1 –10

[Feminists have asserted that maternal knowledge can be applied outside the immediate context of family, informing and benefiting other social arenas and concerns, such as politics, community relationships, peace, and environmental justice. In this chapter, I include a theoretical overview of the...
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Chapter 2Androcentrism in Schools

Lapayese, Yvette V.

Pages: 11 –15

[Prior to discussing strategies for bringing mother-scholar epistemology into various dialogues in education, I shed light on some of the masculine underpinnings onstricting the field of education. By drawing attention to the privileging of men′s knowledge and men’s experiences, we see that male...
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Chapter 3Mother-Scholars Intellectualize the Private Sphere

Lapayese, Yvette V.

Pages: 17 –22

[Mother-scholars drive the feminist impulse to dismantle patriarchal binaries – namely, the sharp divide between the intellect and the maternal, the public and the private. For mother-scholars, maternal work is an intellectual endeavor. Because academic thinking plays a huge role in their...
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Chapter 4Mother-Scholars Maternalize the “Public” Sphere

Lapayese, Yvette V.

Pages: 23 –28

[Mother-scholars nuance the binary of intellect/affect by maternalizing the public sphere, in this case academia. Academia, for the most part, has been hostile to mothers. Upon investigating a diverse range of professions (e.g., medicine, law, business and government service), Crittenden (2001)...
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Chapter 5Mother-Scholars Navigate the “Third Space”

Lapayese, Yvette V.

Pages: 29 –37

[Mother-scholars in the field of education constantly confront the binaries of intellect/maternal and public/private. How they interact with these binaries becomes an important question. In this chapter, I provide concrete ways that mother-scholars navigate binaries and find strength in...
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Chapter 6Mother-Scholars (Re)Imagine Schools

Lapayese, Yvette V.

Pages: 39 –44

[I imagine what the field of education might look like if the central realities of mother-scholars were included in its subject matter. Illuminating mother-scholar insights allows us to analyze how male epistemology has contributed to the conventional construction of the field of education,...

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