Reading Between Bodies and Institutions

Two articles in Gender and Education Volume 10, Number 1 (March 1998) - Pauline Leonard's 'Gendering change? Management, masculinity and the dynamics of incorporation' and Alison Bartlett's 'A passionate subject: representations of desire in feminist pedagogy' - suggested to the author the fruitful potential of 'reading between' positions. Though, at first, the differences between the two articles - in situation, content, critical perspective-loom large, they both circulate around the common problem of finding a place for women in educational institutions that veer between the indifferent, the begrudging or the actively hostile. This article attempts to bring into dialogue the sense of professional woman in Leonard and of corporeal woman in Bartlett. The author also reads between these two articles and her own preoccupation with the role of the feminist teacher and suggests, tentatively, that a new interpretation of 'impersonality' may negotiate the intense involvement Bartlett hopes for and the institutional pressures Leonard feels.     

The Information Superhighway and Post-modernity: The social promise and the social price

This paper is concerned with the social and cultural implications of converging technologies. It offers answers to questions about the implications for our quality of life, social justice and for politics in the context of post-modernity. Drawing together arguments from key commentators and critics from within and beyond cyberspace it identifies possibilities and potential dangers. The purpose of the paper is to assist educators to move beyond current instrumental perspectives.