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Record Nr.

UNISA996199129603316

Autore

Alexander Jonathan

Titolo

Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy : Theory and Practice for Composition Studies / / Jonathan Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2008

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-87421-702-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

808/.0420711

Soggetti

Sex

Gender identity

Authorship - Study and teaching (Higher) - Social aspects

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward Sexual Literacy; SITES OF THEORY AND WRITING; SITES OF PEDAGOGY; SITES OF RESISTANCE; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite its centrality to much of contemporary personal and public discourse, sexuality remains infrequently discussed in most composition courses, and in our discipline at large. Moreover, its complicated relationship to discourse, to the very languages we use to describe and define our worlds, is woefully understudied in our discipline. Discourse about sexuality, and the discourse of sexuality, surround us-circulating in the news media, on the Web, in conversations, and in the very languages we use to articulate our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It forms a