Allyson M. Poska
History
Mary Washington College
It remains the nature of much of academe that many feminist scholars face the challenge of researching one thing while teaching yet another. Despite the fact that many of us chose to study women in order to bring the subject of our study closer to our lives and those of our students, curricular constraints often pressure or even force us to teach tradition-bound courses such as Western Civilization. Our feminist pedagogies and recentered subjects often get left behind as we confront large classes, impatient students, and unimpressed colleagues, leaving us stressed, frustrated, and exhausted. However, there is both solace and hope to be found in our own field of study. As the coeditor of Ashgate Press’s series, “Women and Gender in the Early Modern World” and coauthor of a new comprehensive women’s history textbook, as well as both the early modernist and Latin Americanist at a liberal arts college, I have acquired some insights into how women’s historians are shaping the profession and being shaped by institutional structures. I intend to discuss how we might use the experiences of the women we study to better understand our own subjectivity and agency, and hopefully provide some stress management for ourselves.
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