Feeling Power

First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gen­der, class, and race. The book traces the development of progressive pedagogies from civil rights and feminist movements to Boler's own recent studies of emo­tional intelligence and emotional literacy. Drawing on the formulation of emotion as knowledge within feminist, psychobiological, and post structuralist theo­ries, Boler develops a unique theory of emotion missing from contemporary educa­tional discourses. Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, PART 1: Emotions as a Site of Social Control, CHAPTER ONE. FEELING POWER, CHAPTER TWO. DISCIPLINED EMOTIONS, CHAPTER THREE. CAPITALIZING ON EMOTIONAL “SKILLS”, CHAPTER FOUR. TAMING THE LABILE STUDENT, PART II: Emotions as a Site of Political Resistance, CHAPTER FIVE. A FEMINIST POLITICS OF EMOTION, CHAPTER SIX. LICENSE TO FEEL, CHAPTER SEVEN. THE RISKS OF EMPATHY, CHAPTER EIGHT. A PEDAGOGY OF DISCOMFORT, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index