A Sentimental Education

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Publication Year:
2022

ISBN-13: 9781771125598

<p><b>How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In <i>A Sentimental Education</i>, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind <i>Witch, Please</i> and <i>Secret Feminist Agenda,</i> explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.</b></p> <p>Moving 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 person’s 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 relatable. Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient. </p> <p>In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.</p>