Women/Writing/Teaching - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 079143592X ISBN 13: 9780791435922

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

Presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers―their intertwined lives as professionals, feminists, writers, instructors, and colleagues.

This book presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers―their complex lives as writers, as instructors, as feminists, as professionals in the academy. The authors explore their complex identities as teachers: the particular configurations of their pasts, gender, class, ethnic backgrounds, personalities, and cultures that have shaped their personae as instructors of writing.

The contributors explore the intersections of their past and present experiences that influence and guide their development as writers and as instructors of writing. The book discusses how women can emerge from silence, gain authority and power as professionals, and balance the private and public aspects of their lives. In addition, it addresses how women constitute themselves as literacy teachers and what models of feminist pedagogy emerge.

Women/Writing/Teaching is notable for the range, depth, and richness of the chapters; the dynamic interplay of voices, approaches, issues, and concerns; the multiethnic focus; and the high quality of the writings. It will prompt readers to explore their own life stories and to comprehend more fully women's complex lives as teaching professionals.

About this title

About the Author

Jan Zlotnik Schmidt is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Composition Program, State University of New York, New Paltz. Her previously published work includes Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction (with Carley Bogarad) and We Speak in Tongues (a volume of poetry).

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079143592X
• ISBN 13: 9780791435922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293
• Editor: Schmidt Jan Zlotnik