Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens. Shari J. Stenberg

      Lenses on Composition Studies

      Series Editors, Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steve Westbrook

      Lenses on Composition Studies offers authors the unique opportunity to write for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are new to the discipline of Composition Studies. While the series aims to maintain the rigor and depth of contemporary composition scholarship, it seeks to offer this particular group of students an introduction to key disciplinary issues in accessible prose that does not assume prior advanced knowledge of scholars and theoretical debates. The series provides instructors of advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students texts that are both appropriate and inviting for this fresh but professionally directed audience.

      Other Books in the Series

      Critical Conversations About Plagiarism, edited by Michael Donnelly, Rebecca Ingalls, Tracy Ann Morse, Joanna Castner Post, and Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler (2013)

      Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies, by Vicki Byard (2009)

      Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens

      Shari J. Stenberg

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      Stenberg, Shari J.

      Composition studies through a feminist lens / Shari J. Stenberg.

      pages cm. -- (Lenses on Composition Studies)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-60235-414-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-415-9 (hardcover : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-416-6 (adobe ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-417-3 (epub)

      1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. Feminism and education. I. Title.

      PE1404.S79 2013

      808’.04207--dc23

      2013006775

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      978-1-60235-414-2 (paperback)

      978-1-60235-415-9 (hardcover)

      978-1-60235-416-6 (Adobe eBook)

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      Cover design by David Blakesley.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      To the feminists who came before me, and to my daughters, Zoe and Anika, of the next generation.

      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       1 Composition’s Origin Stories Through a Feminist Lens

       The Origin Stories of Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens

       The Harvard Story: The Birth of Composition Studies from a Test and a Course

       For Writing and Discussion

       Classical Rhetoric as Composition’s Proper Ancestor

       For Writing and Discussion

       The Process Paradigm: Composition as a Science

       For Writing and Discussion

       Looking Ahead

       Works Cited

       For Further Reading

       2 The Rhetorical Tradition Through a Feminist Lens: Locating Women

       Locating Women among Ancient Voices: Aspasia and Diotima

       For Writing and Discussion

       Locating Available Means to Authority: Women’s Rhetorical Challenges to the Church

       For Writing and Discussion

       Locating Women’s Rhetorical Challenges to Femininity

       For Writing and Discussion

       Locating a Public Voice: The Rhetoric of the Suffragists and Abolitionists

       For Writing and Discussion

       Works Cited

       For Further Reading

       3 Difference, Form, and Topoi Through a Feminist Lens

       Acknowledging Difference among Women

       For Writing and Discussion

       Rejecting the Master’s Tools

       For Writing and Discussion

       Revising Rhetorical Contexts

       Works Cited

       For Further Reading

       4 Teacher and Student Identity Through a Feminist Lens

       The Teacher as the (Feminized) Disciplinarian: Cleaning Student Texts, Cleaning Students

       For Writing and Discussion

       The Composition Teacher as (Maternal) Nurturer

       For Writing and Discussion

       Writing Teacher, Critical Teacher

       For Writing and Discussion

       Where We Are, Where We’re Headed: The Composition Teacher as Rhetor

       For Writing and Discussion

       Works Cited