Teaching with Tenderness Toward an Embodied Practice

Adopting an intimate, accessible voice that is theoretically sophisticated yet not elite, Thompson models an innovative approach to theorizing. (Take a quick look at her table of contents and note the poetic chapter titles.) Her tone is invitational and postoppositional. Making herself vulnerable, she risks the personal. She invites readers into her words; she asks us to work with her, together creating pedagogies of tenderness.