Patricia Tyerman

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Self-Portrait with Parents

How adolescence galvanised me for a single-breasted adulthood

Beschreibung

Breast cancer shocked her into asking how she would cope. What resources of body and mind had she inherited from her parents? Self-Portrait with Parents combines original research with a personal understanding of Tyerman's upbringing and its consequences. Looking back at her adolescence and exploring the largely unknown lives of her parents has helped her not only to recover from recurrent breast cancer but also to resist the powerfully negative reactions still common today. Tyerman's father, Donald, Oxford scholar from the impoverished north-east, wartime Fleet Street hero and BBC broadcaster, deputy editor of The Times and editor of the Economist, endured high responsibility without real power. Her mother, Margaret Gray, gave up several careers to look after five children and a husband disabled by childhood polio. Tyerman grew up with a father who couldn't walk. Yet his passion was athletics. Her parents were indifferent to gender distinctions while the outside world valued Fifties femininity. This was hard for Tyerman then but now liberates her to resist assumptions about a loss of womanhood and sexuality.

Autor

After a degree in Modern History at Oxford University, Patricia Tyerman took a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London (1970). While teaching in special schools and a child guidance clinic for the Inner London Education Authority, she achieved a First in Psychology and Philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London (1977). She was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the Open University (1979-99) and she was a senior research fellow at Canterbury Christchurch University (1999-2004). At the Open University Tyerman co-authored and co-edited six books for a wide readership. Other books include 'Inclusion in the City' and 'Education in Britain and China', which were both published by Routledge in 2003. This is her first memoir, written in her maiden name. Since 2004, Tyerman has written and performed stories for the Spark network at the Canal Café Theatre, London. She has completed creative writing courses run by City University and the Arvon Foundation and belonged to the West9Writers' Group convened by Susan Elderkin, a Granta Best of Young British Novelists ('Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains', 2000, 'The Novel Cure', 2014). Tyerman belongs to a weekly writers' group and she divides her time between writing, playing the French Bassoon, seeing her grandsons and exploring London on foot and by bike. www.patriciatyerman.co.uk

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Silverwood Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781800420496
• ISBN-10: 1800420498
• Artikelnr.: 63054134