{"product_id":"a-sentimental-education-9781771125574","title":"A Sentimental Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In \u003ci\u003eA Sentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind \u003ci\u003eWitch, Please\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSecret Feminist Agenda, \u003c\/i\u003e explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah McGregor\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University. She is the host of the podcasts \u003ci\u003eSecret Feminist Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe SpokenWeb Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-host of\u003ci\u003e Witch, Please\u003c\/i\u003e, a feminist podcast about the Harry Potter world. She also co-edited the book \u003ci\u003eRefuse: CanLit in Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e (Book*hug 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50533802737938,"sku":"9781771125574","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_398ac0f3-4e6a-4278-992a-47ac63cf98c8.jpg?v=1731412050","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-sentimental-education-9781771125574","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}