Presence of Mind, Presence of Body: Embodying Positionality in the Classroom
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 7 (2) , 167-176
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00891.x
Abstract
This essay focuses on how we embody the language we speak: how an audience “reads” the body of a speaker as it both constructs the positionality of that speaking subject and construes that subject's discursive authority. Buildingon the work of Linda Brodkey and Michelle Fine, 1 explore what is at stake when university students harass a faculty member by accusing that teacher of not embodying authority in the proper form (body).Keywords
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