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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451543103321

Autore

Boler Megan

Titolo

Feeling power : emotions and education / / Megan Boler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-96300-2

1-135-96301-0

1-280-06313-0

0-203-00949-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

370.15/3

Soggetti

Critical pedagogy

Affective education

Emotions and cognition

Feminism and education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENT; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE FEELING POWER; INTRODUCTION; "FEELING POWER"; TENSIONS BETWEEN "POWER" AND "EMOTIONS"; FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE VIEW OF EMOTIONS AS "INDIVIDUALIZED"; FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO WESTERN THOUGHT: Dismantling the Binaries of Male/Female, Public/Private, Reason/Emotion; FEMINIST THEORIES OF EMOTION; HISTORIES OF EMOTION; ECONOMIES OF MIND: Archaeology and Genealogy; CHAPTER TWO DISCIPLINED EMOTIONS; PASTORAL POWER AND SOCIAL CONTROL OF EMOTIONS

COMMON-SCHOOL MOVEMENT AND PASTORAL CODES OF EMOTIONAL CONDUCT AND VIRTUERELIGIOUS BACKDROP TO WOMEN'S RELATION TO EDUCATION AND EMOTIONS; RATIONALITY AND THE PEDAGOGY OF LOVE; MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES OF EMOTION: The Pathologizing of Women; THE SHIFT TO UTILITY-BASED MORALITY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE OF EMOTIONS; CAPITALIZING ON EMOTION: Social Efficiency and "Human Resources," 1900–1920;



MEASURING MERITOCRACY; MENTAL-HYGIENE: The Social Scientific

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the ways emotions are conceived and enacted within educational settings. Boler draws on feminist theory, pedagogical theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore the complexities of emotion.