Assignment for Wednesday, December 3

Mon, 12/01/2008 - 14:53 — Professor Rose

W 12/3 Political Theories and Composition 3: Gender

 

            Flynn, Elizabeth A. “Composition Studies from a Feminist Perspective.” In Richard Bullock and John Trimbur, eds. The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook/Heinemann, 1991, 137-154.

            Strickland, Donna. “Taking Dictation: The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Contradictions of Composition Teaching.” College English 63.4 (Mar. 2001): 457-479.

            Alexander, Jonathan. “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body.”  College Composition and Communication 57.1 (2005): 45-82.

Consider the following questions and develop a response in a form that can be shared with class members.

Using the readings you’ve done for the course for this day and earlier class periods, suggest an analytical framework for comparing and contrasting work on race, class, gender, and sexuality in theoretical studies in composition.  What might be important characteristics and features to compare?

Alternatively, consider whether a common narrative framework could be imposed upon these theories. What would that narrative (and its variations) be?