Assuming the Positions

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.

ISBN	0822956373	Pages	352
ISBN13	9780822956372 (What's this?)	Volumes	001
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press	Weight (grammes)	503
Imprint	University of Pittsburgh Press	Published in	Pittsburgh PA
Format	Paperback	Series title	Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Publication date	31 Oct 1997	Height (mm)	235
Library of Congress	PE1405.U6M	Width (mm)	157
DEWEY	808.042	Spine width (mm)	20
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	A Textual Tradition: Ordinary Writing as Cultural Pedagogy
1	A World Lettered by Codes: Commonplace Powers	17
2	The Schooled Commonplace: Writing Along New Lines	50
3	Home Improvements: Culture as Pedagogy	94
Pt. II	True Biases: "A Defective and Naturally Bad System"
	Introduction	145
4	The Class on Gender	149
5	Gender as Discourse	171
6	Learning to Spell Patriarchy: Fathers and Sons	217
7	Coda - Fundamentals of Authorship: Rewriting Commonplace Desires	254
	Notes	295
	References	315
	Index	327

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Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing

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