The purpose of this paper is to examine how a secondary English teacher considered her body a personal and political matter within her professional settings. Discourse analysis of the participant’s narrative evidences that women teachers are pressured to present certain feminine and heterosexual bodies and present a similar personal life within their pedagogy. The risk in not following suit is being pushed out of the profession, a matter that can be problematic especially when a teacher undergoes personal changes counter to professional expectations. Teacher education responsibility in preparing teacher candidates for a variable professional trajectory is noted.
The subject of presented analysis is gender treated as a social category entangled in power relations. There are presented main social matrices of the gender-based power practices and it’s institutional and extrainstitutional, structural and individual expressions and consequences. The attention is focused at the classical conceptions of power and the perspectives of using it’s elements in the analysis of gender-based discipline practices in modern and postmodern society. There are also indicated - connected with queer culture - resistance strategies realized by using gender symbols and stereotypically perceived roles.
The subject of the analyses presented in the paper is the gender category matrices of power and authority, such as: androcentrism, patriarchy and heterosexism. The paper also discusses the selected mechanisms of power and authority practices, such as: arbitrary defining of normal gender identity, classification and segregation. Special focus is put on the category of discourse and ideology as tools of authority practice and its medium enabling power and discipline transmission, reproduction and maintenance.
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Przedmiotem prezentowanych a artykule analiz są matryce władzy bazujące na zmiennej płci społecznej. Do matryc tych zaliczono: androcentryzm, model patriarchalny oraz heteroseksizm. W artykule wskazano także na wybrane mechanizmy praktykowania władzy, gdzie jako egzemplifikacje przedstawione zostały: mechanizm normalizacji, klasyfikacji, segregacji i parceleracji. Uwaga zogniskowana została także na kategoriach dyskursu i ideologii traktowanych jako narzędzia praktykowania władzy, oraz jej medium umożliwiające transmisję, reprodukcję i konserwację porządku władzy i dyscypliny.
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