Assuming the positions : cultural pedagogy and the politics of commonplace writing
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Assuming the positions : cultural pedagogy and the politics of commonplace writing
（Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture）
University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index
Contents of Works
- A textual tradition : ordinary writing as cultural pedagogy
- A world lettered by codes : commonplace powers
- The schooled commonplace : writing along new lines
- Home improvements : culture as pedagogy
- True biases : a defective and naturally bad system
- The class on gender
- Gender as discourse
- Learning to spell patriarchy : fathers and sons
- Fundamentals of authorship : rewriting commonplace desires
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this study, writing ordinarily considered trivial is used to show how the writers used it to reinforce or revise the roles imposed on them by gender and social conventions. It makes a case for the usefulness of commonplace writing, arguing that to ignore it distorts our view of the past.
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