Assuming the Positions

by Susan Miller

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956373
• ISBN13: 9780822956372
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"