Feminine Principles and Women's Experience in American Composition and Rhetoric

by Phelps, Louise Wetherbee; Emig, Janet A.

• ISBN13: 9780822955443
• ISBN10: 082295544X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

In this unique collection, the editors and authors examine, against a rich historical background, the complex contributions that women have made to composition and rhetoric in American education. Using varied and at times experimental modes of presentation to portray teachers and learners at work, including the very young and the elderly, the text provides a generous and fresh feminine perspective on the field.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Context and Commitment
Collaboration, Conversation, and the Politics of Gender	p. 5
Praising Folly: Constructing a Postmodern Rhetorical Authority as a Woman	p. 27
Discourse and Diversity: Experimental Writing Within the Academy	p. 43
Women's Reclamation of Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 67
The Role of Vietnamese Women in Literacy Processes: An Interview	p. 91
The Stories of Our Lives Become Our Lives: Journals, Diaries, and Academic Discourse	p. 109
Writing a Life: The Composing of Grace	p. 137
Intellectual Parenting and a Developmental Feminist Pedagogy of Writing	p. 153
Teaching Other People's Children	p. 191
Composing the Multiple Self: Teen Mothers Rewrite Their Roles	p. 211
Rockshelf Further Forming: Women, Writing, and Teaching the Young	p. 231
Of Mice and Mothers: Mrs. Barbauld's "New Walk" and Gendered Codes in Children's Literature	p. 255
Becoming a Warrior: Lessons of the Feminist Workplace	p. 289
Between the Drafts	p. 341
Issues and Discursive Practices	p. 353
Mapping the Scene of Learning Through the Lens of Drama	p. 361
Writing into Unmapped Territory: The Practice of Lateral Citation	p. 375
In Search of Ways In	p. 385
Reality Check at the Crossroads	p. 393
Editors' Reflections: Vision and Interpretation	p. 407
Notes on Contributors	p. 427
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