Plain and ordinary things : reading women in the writing classroom / Deborah Anne Dooley.

Author
Dooley, Deborah Anne [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
Description
xxvi, 273 pages ; 23 cm

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    Series
    SUNY series, feminist theory in education [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Plain and Ordinary Things revisions the space of student writing in classrooms from a number of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives: Feminist, literary, anthropological, and phenomenological. It actualizes the relationships among reading and writing, the songs of pre-literate people, nineteenth and twentieth century literary history, feminist theories about gender and language, and women's writing and pedagogy. The book explores the relations between private and public selves and women's roles as teachers and writers. Dooley also examines the authenticity of women's voices with which they speak to their students, their colleagues, and themselves. The discussion of reading, writing, and teaching in the book is informed by several premises. The most important of these is that writing and teaching are reproductive acts that gather up past experience, providing a ground for the expression and transformation of identity and that understanding this changes pedagogical theory and practice. The book also focuses on reading the writing of three twentieth century women authors: Virginia Woolf, Joanna Field (nee Marion Milner), and Adrienne Rich.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.
    Contents
    • pt. 1. Song and Sexuality: A Theory of Women's Writing. I. Songs of Silence: Women's Writing and the Recovery of the Romantic Project. II. Reading Women's Songs: A Theory of Orality
    • pt. 2. Reading Writing Women: Virginia Woolf, Joanna Field, and Adrienne Rich. III. Reclaiming the Garden Song: Notes toward a Phenomenology of Intimacy. IV. Virginia Woolf and the Problematic of Intimacy. V. Rituals of Happiness: Joanna Field's Method of Following the Image. VI. 'Re-membering': Adrienne Rich and the Problematic of Experience.
    ISBN
    • 0791423190 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780791423196 ((alk. paper))
    • 0791423204 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780791423202 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    94021538
    OCLC
    30625515
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