Textual Androgyny, the Rhetoric of the Essay, and the Politics of Identity in Composition (or the Struggle to Be Girly-Man in a World of Gladiator Pumpitude).

Heilker, Paul

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Publication Date: 1992

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Textual Androgyny, the Rhetoric of the Essay, and the Politics of Identity in Composition (or the Struggle to Be Girly-Man in a World of Gladiator Pumpitude).

Heilker, Paul

Writing on the Edge, v3 n2 p64-76 Spr 1992

Maintains that composition teachers should urge students to combine linear, objective, abstract masculine tradition with its opposing circular, sensual, subjective, contextual, committed discourse of femininity. Advocates doing so by using the essay to explore a contemporary controversial issue. (SR)

Descriptors: Androgyny, Discourse Modes, Higher Education, Sex Stereotypes, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction

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