num_pages: 142
description: How 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.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 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 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.In the tradition of feminist autotheory this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregors 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.
language: English
title: A Sentimental Education
publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press