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Gender and the Journal: Diaries and Academic Discourse

Gender and the Journal: Diaries and Academic Discourse

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Series: Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Pra

Literary CriticismGeneral Education

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ISBN10: 0791406830
ISBN13: 9780791406830
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 24 1992
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.18
Language: English

This book explores the gendered historical and social contexts and discursive traditions that have characterized journals and diaries in academic discourse. The tension between the term journal, which has a variety of positive public and scholarly connotations, and the term diary, which is currently understood as a feminized, trivial, and confessional kind of writing inappropriate for school, is a critical part of the problem. This book uses the developing and shifting notions of diary and journal to explore several critical questions about the larger relations between gender, language, canonicity, and academic discourse.

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