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How do historically marginalized groups expose the partiality and
presumptions of educational institutions through autobiographical
acts? How are the stories we tell used to justify resistance to
change or institutional complacency? These are the questions Wendy
S. Hesford asks as she considers the uses of autobiography in
educational settings. This book demonstrates how autobiographical
acts -- oral, written, performative, and visual -- play out in
vexed and contradictory ways and how in the academy they can become
sites of cultural struggle over multicultural education, sexual
harassment, institutional racism, hate speech, student activism,
and commemorative practices.
Within the context of Oberlin, a small liberal arts college in
Ohio, this book looks at the uses of autobiographical practices in
empowering groups traditionally marginalized in academic settings.
Investigating the process of self-representation and the social,
spatial, and discursive frames within which academic bodies and
identities are constituted, Framing Identities explores the use of
autobiographical acts in terms of power, influence, risks involved,
and effectiveness. Hesford provides a model for teacher-researchers
across the disciplines (education, English, composition, cultural
studies, women's studies, to name a few) to investigate the
contradictory uses and consequences of autobiography, and to carve
out new pedagogical spaces.
In the continuing estrangement between the West and the Muslim
Middle East, human rights are becoming increasingly enmeshed with
territorial concerns. Marked by both substance and rhetoric, they
are situated at the heart of many foreign policy decisions and
doctrines of social change, and often serve as a justification for
aggressive actions. In humanitarian and political debates about the
topic, women and children are frequently considered first. Since
the 1990s, human rights have become the most legitimate and
legitimizing juridicial and cultural claim made on a woman's
behalf. But what are the consequences of equating women's rights
with human rights? As the eleven essays in this volume show, the
impact is often contradictory. Bringing together some of the most
respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela
Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and
Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked
ways that women and children are further subjugated when political
or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray
the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors. Drawn
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities,
arts, and social sciences, Just Advocacy? promises to advance a
more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human
rights both for scholars and activists. Wendy S. Hesford is an
associate professor of English at Ohio State University. Wendy
Kozol is an associate professor of gender and women's studies at
Oberlin College.
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