Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric and the Rise of Compostion

by Miriam Brody and Associate Professor Miriam Brody

In this critical history of the gendered politics of rhetoric and the rise of composition, Miriam Brody argues that nothing about words or their arrangement is innately gendered. Yet since the English Enlightenment, teachers have encouraged their students to admire and imitate "manly" writing, writing that is plain, forceful, cogent, and true. Similarly, students have been enjoined to avoid so-called effeminate or feminine writing--writing characterized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316919
• ISBN13: 9780809316915
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.