A Sentimental Education - 9781771125574

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

A Sentimental EducationAuthor(s): Hannah McGregor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada\nImprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press\nISBN-13: 9781771125574, 978-1771125574\nSynopsis\nHow do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.\n\nMoving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one persons education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the rel.