Wild Words/ Dangerous Desires: High School Girls and Feminist Avant-Garde Writing

by Harper, Helen J.

• ISBN13: 9780820438610
• ISBN10: 0820438618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Wild Words/Dangerous Desires explores the struggles of young women who try to define themselves with, and against, the pleasures, premises, and practices that mark the female subject in feminist avant-garde writing. Drawing on a study of six high school girls, it traces the affective and intellectual investments that encourage young women to embrace and/or resist the "woman" produced in this writing. This text offers a sophisticated analysis of female adolescent desire and identification in reading and writing acts. Such an analysis also serves to highlight the investments of feminist educators. For both teachers and scholars, the text will prove useful in explicating the complexities of transformative education.

Author Biography

Helen J. Harper is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Letting Wildness Into the Words	p. 1
Feminist Writing Practices: Wild Women/Wild Words	p. 15
The Scene of Writing and Research	p. 33
Threatening the Good Writer	p. 45
Threatening the Good Student	p. 67
Threatening the Rebel	p. 89
Threatening the Romantics	p. 109
Dangerous Desires: Disturbing Identifications	p. 137
Notes	p. 169
References	p. 173
Literature Studied in the Project	p. 185
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