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Lenses on Composition Studies
Series Editors, Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steve Westbrook
Lenses on Composition Studies offers authors the unique opportunity to write for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are new to the discipline of Composition Studies. While the series aims to maintain the rigor and depth of contemporary composition scholarship, it seeks to offer this particular group of students an introduction to key disciplinary issues in accessible prose that does not assume prior advanced knowledge of scholars and theoretical debates. The series provides instructors of advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students texts that are both appropriate and inviting for this fresh but professionally directed audience.
Other Books in the Series
Critical Conversations About Plagiarism, edited by Michael Donnelly, Rebecca Ingalls, Tracy Ann Morse, Joanna Castner Post, and Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler (2013)
Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies, by Vicki Byard (2009)
Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens
Shari J. Stenberg
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Anderson, South Carolina
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Stenberg, Shari J.
Composition studies through a feminist lens / Shari J. Stenberg.
pages cm. -- (Lenses on Composition Studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-414-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-415-9 (hardcover : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-416-6 (adobe ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-417-3 (epub)
1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. Feminism and education. I. Title.
PE1404.S79 2013
808’.04207--dc23
2013006775
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ISBN Information
978-1-60235-414-2 (paperback)
978-1-60235-415-9 (hardcover)
978-1-60235-416-6 (Adobe eBook)
978-1-60235-417-3 (ePub)
Cover design by David Blakesley.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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To the feminists who came before me, and to my daughters, Zoe and Anika, of the next generation.
Contents
1 Composition’s Origin Stories Through a Feminist Lens
The Origin Stories of Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens
The Harvard Story: The Birth of Composition Studies from a Test and a Course
Classical Rhetoric as Composition’s Proper Ancestor
The Process Paradigm: Composition as a Science
2 The Rhetorical Tradition Through a Feminist Lens: Locating Women
Locating Women among Ancient Voices: Aspasia and Diotima
For Writing and Discussion
Locating Available Means to Authority: Women’s Rhetorical Challenges to the Church
For Writing and Discussion
Locating Women’s Rhetorical Challenges to Femininity
For Writing and Discussion
Locating a Public Voice: The Rhetoric of the Suffragists and Abolitionists
For Writing and Discussion
Works Cited
For Further Reading
3 Difference, Form, and Topoi Through a Feminist Lens
Acknowledging Difference among Women
For Writing and Discussion
