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Manly Writing

Gender, Rhetoric and the Rise of Compostion

Manly Writing( )
Author: Brody, Miriam
ISBN:978-0-8093-1691-5
Publication Date:Nov 1993
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $42.00
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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 as vague,...
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