A Room of Our Own: Girls, Feminism, and Schooling

摘要: Written in the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf’s astoundingly poignant text, A Room of One’s Own, reverberates almost a century later. essay invites its readers to join her search answer question “women and fiction,” process we are treated piercingly articulate perspective on condition women world culture built women’s exclusion subordination. “A woman,” Woolf writes, “must have money room own if she is write fiction” (6). Although it true that unlike time, girls’ education no longer dependent fortunes Mrs. Seton who might bequeath college library for young women. The issues relationships between education, creativity, access privacy, space, resources remain deeply relevant. In spring winter 2002–2003, these themes reverberated State College, Pennsylvania, time place would likely had trouble imagining. And yet, come together they did, an initiative set up Women’s Health Resource Center alternative high school. This article tells story creation center from three inter-twined perspectives. Laura was, at twelfth-grade student, whose idea was establish as part graduation requirements. Amy, Laura’s English teacher, supervised project. Marnina recently hired faculty member College Education Studies Program Pennsylvania University. She served resource person center, attending co-facilitating, with Laura, group’s weekly activities. With each us bearing different initiative, feminism, girls schooling, writing our separate perspectives underlines complexities doing feminist work schools. Our voices both overlap diverge, fuse separate, result rather nonlinear story, similar creating center. Through multi-vocality circuitousness, way which told enacts telling re-positions often-opposing entities educational theory practice more fluid boundaries. Shifting merging among narrative, theories practices engaging schools woven together, inflected powerful contradictions possibilities.