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PublisherHeinemann

ISBN-100867093536

ISBN-139780867093537

eBay Product ID (ePID)206289

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages294 Pages

Publication NameTextual Orientations : Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLgbt Studies / General, Linguistics / Semantics, General, Rhetoric, Social Psychology

Publication Year1995

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorHarriet Malinowitz

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Education, Psychology

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN94-036734

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Malinowitz's bittersweet blend of theory and practice challenges us as teachers of writing to reflect critically on our understandings of the possibilities and the inevitable constraints of the discourse communities we create in our classrooms."-Harvard Educational Review, "Malinowitz's bittersweet blend of theory and practice challenges us as teachers of writing to reflect critically on our understandings of the possibilities and the inevitable constraints of the discourse communities we create in our classrooms."- Harvard Educational Review

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Senior

Dewey Decimal378.1/982664

Table Of ContentI. Introduction Queer Texts, Queer Contexts Ways of Teaching "Truth" or Consequences: The Lesbian or Gay Student in the Mainstream Writing Class Lesbian and Gay Studies: Landscape of an (Inter)Discipline Community Knowledge and Social Construction Theory in Composition: Discourse Communities The Politics of Outsiderhood Go to School: Liberatory Pedagogy The Lesbian-and Gay-Themed Writing Class Construing and Constructing Knowledge as a Lesbian or Gay Student Writer: Reflections on an Identity-Based Course Portraits of Four Student Writers The Course of Study/Study of the Course Adrian O'Connor: "It's a Social World" Isabel Serrano: "Setting the Record Straight" 1 John Lee: Writing Fractured Identity 1 Mary Donoghue: "Let's Assume These Things Are True" Conclusion 1 Queering the Brew

SynopsisTextual Orientations examines two emerging, mutually illuminating fields: rhetoric/composition and lesbian/gay studies. It is a thorough, fascinating study of the complex rhetorical features in operation for lesbian and gay students in college writing classes. The research from which the book evolves centers on an unusual situation: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual together in a class for which lesbian and gay experience is the theme. What happens in such a circumstance? What kind of discourse community is formed? What kinds of new work does it enable? The book illustrates that in an academic environment that is "queercentric," the complexities of lesbian and gay subjectivity can be drawn upon to frame the very acts of composing from which they are usually erased. Using social construction theory, liberatory pedagogy, feminism, ethnography, and queer theory as frameworks for analysis, the author proposes a pedagogy that uses the vantage point of the social margin -- a place that produces not only abject outsiderhood but also acute ways of self-defining, knowing, and acting. Textual Orientations is essential reading for college composition instructors, those engaged in gay and lesbian studies, and gender specialists., Textual Orientations examines two emerging, mutually illuminating fields: rhetoric/composition and lesbian/gay studies.

LC Classification NumberPE1405.U6M34 1995