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Telling My Teaching Stories Gender Practice Abstract As a female elementary school teacher and from a feminist and postmodern perspective, I have used a letter-writing approach to provide a self-narrative of my private sphere, including my family life, and the public sphere, including teaching, the Teacher Association and gender equality activities. I expected to interpret the meaning of power which exists among them to introspect my countermeasure, self-orientation and to change the strategies. Writing myself and passing my life in review, I understood the repression of social structure. It made me recognize afresh myself and affirm the value of my life. I overcame the repression of traditional culture to emancipate myself and establish the subjectivity of my own self identity. Being engaged in research. by an extraordinary way, I took my autobiography as a media of communication and sharing consciousness in order to give moral support to the same repression and to recall more spirit that connect to each other. I have invited friends and family to read my autobiography, and then in a situation of inter-subjectivity, to discuss the patriarchal ideology of each other’s family life and the education system. Based on my personal revelations and the outcomes of our discussions, the aim of this research is to help us all find a strategy to achieve a psychological state of balance in the uncertain environment of the postmodern society. Key words: self-narrative, feminism, postmodern, identification, patriarchy
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