Collection of writings regarding the social construction of gender

Gender Reader, The

Olson, Gary A.

Ashton-Jones, Evelyn

Reference

Allyn&Bacon

The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.

The Gender Reader (2nd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Perry, Merry G.

Social Sciences

Pearson

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself–including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography.      The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject.  The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing.  For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.

Gender Reader- (Value Pack w/MyLab Search) (2nd Edition)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Style and readability in business writing: A sentence-combining approach

Random House]

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the breadth and strength of composition scholarship that has fruitfully engaged with critical theory in its many manifestations. In drawing on the critical discourses of philosophers, feminists, literary theorists, African Americanists, cultural theorists, and others, these compositionists have enriched the discourse in the field, broadened intellectual conceptions of the multiple roles and functions of discourse, and opened up an infinite number of questions and new possibilities for composition theory and pedagogy.

Literature & Fiction

State Univ of New York Pr

State University of New York Press

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy

Explores the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing and publishing of textbooks. An exploration of the sometimes tenuous relationship between textbooks and the discipline of composition and rhetoric, (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks critically scrutinizes the culture of textbooks from the vantage point of scholars and teachers. It examines a variety of textbooks including: standard rhetorics, handbooks, cross-cultural anthologies, readers, technical textbooks, and argumentation textbooks. Different perspectives are used to discuss the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing and publishing of these works. Contributors raise challenging questions about the relationship between textbooks and the cultures which produce them, the discipline of which they are an indispensable part, and the classrooms in which they are to have their most tangible effects on teaching and learning.

Gale, Fredric G.

Words, Language & Grammar

Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings. While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works―and perhaps his most important―are his nonliterary writings. In Justifying Belief, Gary Olson examines Fish’s nonliterary work and explains that what unites Fish’s interventions in so many seemingly disparate areas of inquiry is his belief in the centrality of rhetoric. Whether he is discussing how disciplines conduct their work, how political positions triumph, or how practice always derives from specific situations despite the grandiose theories employed to justify them, Fish consistently turns to the specific local, contingent context―to the rhetorical situation at play―to explain how something works. For Fish, people “understand” or are “persuaded” by a position because it fits into the structure of beliefs already in play, not because they have been swayed by the “reasonableness” of someone’s argument; they then pursue the available means of support to justify that belief rhetorically, both to themselves and to others. Olson demonstrates that this strong relationship between rhetoric and belief is the intellectual foundation of much of Fish’s work. Justifying Belief includes a comprehensive bibliography of Fish’s works, an Afterword by J. Hillis Miller, and a Foreword by Fish himself.

Critical Intellectuals on Writing

A fascinating look at how some of the world's most eminent scholars conceive of their own relationship with writing and with the work of being a critical intellectual. Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar’s relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham bring together some of the world’s leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine how they conceive of their own relationship to writing and to the work of being a critical intellectual. Using excerpts from interviews, originally published in JAC, each scholar’s thoughts are revealed about writing habits, how writing relates to intellectual work, and the politics of intellectual work. Included are excerpts of interviews with the following: Gloria Anzaldúa, Mary Field Belenky, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Donald Davidson, Jacques Derrida, Michael Eric Dyson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Clifford Geertz, Henry Giroux, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Ernesto Laclau, Jean-François Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, Chantal Mouffe, Avital Ronell, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jane Tompkins, Stephen Toulmin, and Slavoj Zðizûek.

Essays & Correspondence

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Gender Reader, The

The Gender Reader (2nd Edition)

Gender Reader- (Value Pack w/MyLab Search) (2nd Edition)

Style and readability in business writing: A sentence-combining approach

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks: Conflicts of Culture, Ideology, and Pedagogy

Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

Critical Intellectuals on Writing