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Feminism and Composition

by Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey

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Feminism and Composition

A Critical Sourcebook

First Edition ©2003

ISBN-10: 0-312-40764-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-40764-3
Paper Text, 631 pages

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Authors

Dedication
Acknowledgments


FOREWORD
Forwarding a Feminist Agenda in Writing Studies
GAIL E. HAWISHER


INTRODUCTION
Charting Our Ways in Feminism and Composition
GESA E. KIRSCH, FAYE SPENCER MAOR, LANCE MASSEY, LEE NICKOSON-MASSEY, AND MARY P. SHERIDAN-RABIDEAU


SITUATING THE FIELD
Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption
JOY S. RITCHIE AND KATHLEEN BOARDMAN


Part One EARLY FEMINIST VOICES AND VISIONS

Introduction
FAYE SPENCER MAOR


1 Identity and Expression: A Writing Course for Women
FLORENCE HOWE


2 The Feminine Style: Theory and Fact
MARY P. HIATT


3 Teaching Griselda to Write
JOAN BOLKER


4 The Womanization of Rhetoric
SALLYMILLER GEARHART


5 Style as Politics: A Feminist Approach to the Teaching of Writing
PAMELA J. ANNAS


Part Two FEMINIST THEORIES AND RESEARCH


Introduction
MARY P. SHERIDAN-RABIDEAU


6 Confronting the "Essential" Problem: Reconnecting Feminist Theory and Pedagogy
JOY S. RITCHIE


7 Writing Against Writing: The Predicament of Écriture Féminine in Composition Studies
LYNNWORSHAM


8 Feminism and Methodology in Composition Studies
PATRICIA A. SULLIVAN


9 Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition Research
GESA E. KIRSCH AND JOY S. RITCHIE


10 Beside Ourselves: Rhetoric and Representation in Postcolonial Feminist Writing
SUSAN C. JARRATT


11 Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Politics of Textual Ownership
ANDREA ABERNETHY LUNSFORD


12 Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference Do They Make?
PATRICIA BIZZELL


13 A View from a Bridge: Afrafeminist Ideologies and Rhetorical Studies
JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER


REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Revisiting "Confronting the ‘Essential’ Problem"
JOY S. RITCHIE AND BARBARA DIBERNARD


Part Three GENDER AND FORMS OF WRITING


Introduction
LANCE MASSEY


14 Composing as a Woman
ELIZABETH A. FLYNN


15 Rhetoric in a New Key: Women and Collaboration
ANDREA ABERNETHY LUNSFORD AND LISA EDE


16 Feminism and Composition: The Case for Conflict
SUSAN C. JARRATT


17 Beyond Argument in Feminist Composition
CATHERINE E. LAMB


18 Discourse and Diversity: Experimental Writing Within the Academy
LILLIAN BRIDWELL-BOWLES


19 Recomposing as a Woman—An Essay in Different Voices
TERRY MYERS ZAWACKI


20 Writing Multiplicity: Hypertext and Feminist Textual Politics
DONNA LECOURT AND LUANN BARNES


REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Contextualizing "Composing as a Woman"
ELIZABETH A. FLYNN


REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Reflections on "Feminism and Composition: The Case for Conflict"
SUSAN C. JARRATT


Part Four GENDER, TEACHING, AND IDENTITY


Introduction
FAYE SPENCERMAOR


21 The Other "F" Word: The Feminist in the Classroom
DALE M. BAUER


22 A Symposium on Feminist Experiences in the Composition Classroom
JILL EICHHORN, SARA FARRIS, KAREN HAYES, ADRIANA HERNÁNDEZ, SUSAN C. JARRATT, KAREN POWERS-STUBBS, AND MARIAN M. SCIACHITANO


23 Participatory Rhetoric and the Teacher as Racial/ Gendered Subject
CHERYL L. JOHNSON


24 Rend(er)ing Women’s Authority in the Writing Classroom
MICHELLE PAYNE


25 Coming Out in the Classroom: A Return to the Hard Place
MARY ELLIOTT


26 "When and Where I Enter": Race, Gender, and Composition Studies
SHIRLEY WILSON LOGAN


27 Reading and Writing Differences: The Problematic of Experience
MIN-ZHAN LU


28 On Becoming a Woman: Pedagogies of the Self
SUSAN ROMANO


29 Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality
MICHELLE GIBSON, MARTHA MARINARA, AND DEBORAH MEEM


REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Masks and Other Drapings: A Reconsideration (or Reconciliation?) of "Participatory Rhetoric and the Teacher as Racial/Gendered Subject"
CHERYL L. JOHNSON


Part Five FEMINISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE PROFESSION


Introduction
LEE NICKOSON-MASSEY


30 Learning Our Own Ways to Situate Composition and Feminist Studies in the English Department
WENDY BISHOP


31 Composing "Composing as a Woman": A Perspective on Research
ELIZABETH A. FLYNN


32 The Feminization of Composition
SUSANMILLER


33 Teaching College English as a Woman
LYNN Z. BLOOM


34 The Feminization of Rhetoric and Composition Studies?
JANICE M. LAUER


35 The Feminization of Composition: Questioning the Metaphors That Bind Women Teachers
EILEEN E. SCHELL


36 Gender and Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition
THERESA ENOS


REFLECTIVE ESSAY
On "Learning Our Own Ways"
WENDY BISHOP


A Selected Annotated Bibliography in Feminism and Composition

Further Readings in Feminism and Composition

Notes on the Authors

Notes on the Editors

Index

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