Feminism and Composition Studies

by Jarratt, Susan C.

• ISBN13: 9780873525862
• ISBN10: 0873525868
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Composition (at its best) and feminism work against the grain of conventional institutional practices. Both challenge assumptions and seek to transform ways of thinking, teaching, and learning. Both are complex, containing different agendas and different voices.
Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words is a feminist project that boldly places at its center differences among women. Topics discussed include American history, politics, language, racism, pedagogy, contingent labor in the teaching of writing, e-mail behavior, and the need for educational and institutional reform.
Teachers, graduate students, program administrators, and feminists will find valuable the critiques, theoretical as well as personal, contained in this unusually honest and thought-provoking volume.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Acknowledgments
Introduction: As We Were Saying...	p. 1
The Reproduction of Othering	p. 21
"When and Where I Enter": Race, Gender, and Composition Studies	p. 45
Interrupting Our Way to Agency: Feminist Cultural Studies and Composition	p. 58
The Costs of Caring: "Femininism" and Contingent Women Workers in Composition Studies	p. 74
Argument and Composition	p. 94
Critiquing the "Culture" of Feminism and Composition: Toward a Red Feminism	p. 100
Let It Pass: Changing the Subject, Once Again	p. 111
"Ye Are Witnesses": Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity	p. 132
Equivalent Students, Equitable Classrooms	p. 153
Women on the Networks: Searching for E-Spaces of Their Own	p. 172
The Practice of Piece-Making: Subject Positions in the Classroom	p. 198
Celebrating Dis-eases of Women at Waytoofast	p. 206
Riding Long Coattails, Subverting Tradition: The Tricky Business of Feminists Teaching Rhetoric(s)	p. 217
Reading and Writing Differences: The Problematic of Experience	p. 239
Women and Language in the Collaborative Writing Classroom	p. 252
Feminist Writing Program Administration: Resisting the Bureaucrat Within	p. 276
A Feminist Critique of Writing in the Disciplines	p. 291
Writing Back	p. 313
From Principles to Particulars (and Back)	p. 321
After Words: A Choice of Words Remains	p. 329
Contributors	p. 357
Works Cited	p. 363
Index	p. 395
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