Re-membering Mothers as Lifelong Educators: The Art Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Authors

  • Dorothy Lander St. Francis Xavier University

Abstract

"I didn't know the White Ribbon had been used previously to Montreal Massacre Remembrance," a visitor wrote in response to the 1999 exhibit of 19th-century banners of the Canadian Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). My qualitative research into the art work of the Canadian Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) re-evaluates (re-members,) mothers as informal educators of lifelong learning. Memory work and art work are both theoretical framework and research method that constitute the counter-memory methodology of feminist genealogy and resistance to dominant discourses around motherwork, art work, and lifelong learning. My research develops the rhetorical purpose of art work, in which words and images address an-other and stir memory; artful rhetoric joins two memories—speaker and listener, artist and spectator—in a shared moment.

Résumé

"Je n'étais pas au courant que le ruban blanc avail été employé lors de la journée commémorant la tuerie de l'École polytechnique", a écrit une personne après sa visite de l'exposition de bannières de la section canadienne de la Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), en 1999. Ma recherche qualitative au sujet d'objets d'art produits par des membres de la WCTU ré-évalue (et re-positionne) les mères en tant qu'éducatrices parallèles en formation continue. Les récits individuels et les objets d'art sont à la fois le cadre théorique et la méthode de recherche qui constituent la méthodologie d'une contre-mémoire de la généalogie et de la resistance féministes contre des discours dominants sur le rôle de la mère, l'art et la formation continue. Ma recherche se penche sur la visée rhétorique de l'art, où mots et images s'interpellent et remuent les souvenirs; une rhétorique habile qui lie les souvenirs des deux acteurs—le locuteur et le récepteur, l'artiste et le spectateur—dans un moment partagé.

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Published

2004-05-01

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Lander, D. (2004). Re-membering Mothers as Lifelong Educators: The Art Work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 18(1), 1–32. Retrieved from https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae/article/view/1844

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2004)

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Articles

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