A Woman's Place: Rhetoric and Readings for Composing Yourself and Your ProseState University of New York Press, 1981 M06 30 - 308 pages A truly liberated rhetoric and reader has at last become available to courses in composition, with the publication of A Woman's Place. This unique textbook explores the notion of writing as self-definition and, as a consequence, the relationship between gender and writing. Convinced that writing is a meaningful process, performed with commitment, Dr. Morahan has created a course that simultaneously sharpens writing and thinking skills and contributes to the consciousness-raising of women and men in today's world. Her "pedagogy for liberation" creates a student-centered classroom, in which a spirit of collaboration replaces one of competition, by means of peer editing, tutorial approaches, and small group activities. The literary passages of A Woman's Place are, both stylistically and thematically, tied in with the lessons directly. At the same time, they function as a compact women's studies course. Research and writing are organized around a cluster of shared themes—problems that all students are addressing in their lives: power vs. powerlessness, passivity vs. action, identity, oppression vs. freedom, and the nurturance of creativity. Taken from the works of professional writers, including such well-known individuals as Adrienne Rich, Tillie Olsen, Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Mead, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jonathan Swift, and Sylvia Plath, they are often accompanied by short excerpts from student essays. Useful bibliographical notes suggest further readings. |
Contents
III | 1 |
IV | 8 |
V | 9 |
VI | 24 |
VII | 25 |
VIII | 27 |
IX | 29 |
X | 31 |
XL | 173 |
XLI | 174 |
XLII | 175 |
XLIII | 178 |
XLIV | 185 |
XLVI | 186 |
XLVII | 189 |
XLVIII | 201 |
XI | 39 |
XII | 51 |
XIII | 52 |
XIV | 54 |
XV | 58 |
XVI | 61 |
XVII | 66 |
XVIII | 68 |
XIX | 69 |
XX | 73 |
XXI | 75 |
XXII | 80 |
XXIII | 83 |
XXIV | 86 |
XXV | 88 |
XXVI | 102 |
XXVII | 107 |
XXVIII | 109 |
XXIX | 114 |
XXX | 128 |
XXXI | 135 |
XXXII | 139 |
XXXIII | 143 |
XXXIV | 146 |
XXXV | 147 |
XXXVI | 152 |
XXXVII | 166 |
XXXVIII | 169 |
XXXIX | 172 |
L | 204 |
LI | 206 |
LII | 208 |
LIII | 209 |
LIV | 212 |
LV | 223 |
LVII | 224 |
LVIII | 226 |
LIX | 234 |
LX | 235 |
LXI | 243 |
LXII | 244 |
LXIII | 249 |
LXIV | 251 |
LXV | 256 |
LXVII | 258 |
LXVIII | 262 |
LXIX | 275 |
LXX | 276 |
LXXI | 281 |
LXXII | 282 |
LXXIII | 285 |
LXXIV | 296 |
LXXV | 298 |
LXXVI | 299 |
LXXVII | 301 |
LXXVIII | 302 |
LXXIX | 303 |
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A Woman's Place: Rhetoric and Readings for Composing Yourself and ..., Volume 1 Shirley Morahan No preview available - 1981 |
Common terms and phrases
Adrienne Rich American analyze androgyny Arapesh argue argument assumptions audience beauty behavior belief birth control called century choose cited connotations context contextual definition conventions course culture define describe dialectic dictionary discussion English essay example excerpt fact feel female formal outline girl human ideas identify Iris Murdoch Joan Didion language learners lexical definition lives look male Margaret Sanger materials Maya Angelou meaning metaphor mind mother operational definition oppression organize paragraph pattern pejoration periodic sentence person phrases play poem primates prostitute Published by permission question reader reference Reprinted by permission research paper revise rewrite Room of One's sentence sexist sexual Shakespeare silences social society stipulative definition structure talk things Tillie Olsen tion topic Trobriand Islanders verb Virginia Woolf want a wife woman women words Writing task written wrote York