4 The Feminist WPA Project: Fear and Possibility in the Feminist “Home”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. 1 Introduction: Literacy, Power, and the Shaping of Identity 1
4. PART I: INSTITUTIONS AND STRUGGLES FOR IDENTITY
5. 2 Social Class as Discourse: The Construction of Subjectivities in English 17
6. 3 Excellence is the Name of the (Ideological) Game 29
7. 4 The Feminist WPA Project: Fear and Possibility in the Feminist “Home” 42
8. 5 When “Ms. Mentor” Misses the Mark: Literacy and Lesbian Identity in the Academy 57
9. PART II: IDENTITY IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM
10. 6 She Toiled for a Living: Writing Lives and Identities of Older Female Students 77
11. 7 Literacy, Identity, and the “Successful” Student Writer 92
12. 8 Speaking from the Borderlands: Exploring Narratives of Teacher Identity 109
13. 9 “Who Are They and What Do They Have to Do with What I want to Be?” The Writing of Multicultural Identity and College Success Stories for First-Year Writers 122
14. PART III: IDENTITY OUTSIDE THE INSTITUTIONAL WALLS
15. 10 Migratory and Regional Identity 141
16. 11 Some Trouble with Discourses: What Conflicts Between Subjects and Ethnographers Tell Us About What Students Don’t/Won’t/ Can’t Say 154
17. 12 Composing (Identity) in a Posttraumatic Age 170
18. 13 Conclusion: Working Bodies: Class Matters in College Composition 182
19. Notes 192
20. References 196
21. Contributors 207
22. Index 209