Composing Gender: A Bedford Spotlight Reader

Groner, Rachael

ISBN 10: 1457628546 / ISBN 13: 9781457628542

Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013

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Synopsis:

Composing Gender explores questions around the central concept of gender: Is gender binary, or more complicated? How do we define gender and sexuality? What stereotypes, expectations, and rituals shape gender? What influence does the media have on gender? Readings by a range of feminist scholars, journalists, gender theorists, biologists, legal scholars, sociologists, and others take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The Web site for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.

The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting new line of single-theme readers, each featuring Bedford's trademark care and quality. The readers in the series collect carefully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing course--about 30 selections--to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as money, food, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes have assisted in the development of the series.

About the Author: John OHara, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing in the First-Year Writing Program and School of General Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Composing Gender: A Bedford Spotlight Reader
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good