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"Combining anecdotal evidence (the personal stories of rhetoric and composition teachers) with hard data, Theresa Enos offers documentation for what many have long suspected to be true: lower-division writing courses in colleges and universities are staffed primarily by women who receive minimal pay, little prestige, and lessened job security in comparison to their male counterparts. Male writing faculty, however, also are affected by factors such as low salaries because of the undervaluation of a field considered feminized. As Enos notes in her preface: ""The rhetoric of our institutional lives is connected especially to the negotiations of gender roles in rhetoric and composition."" Enos describes and classifies narratives gathered from surveys, interviews, and campus visits and interweaves these narratives with statistical data gathered from national surveys that show gendered experiences in the profession. Enos discusses the ways in which these experiences affect the working conditions of writing teachers and administrators in various programs at different types of institutions. Enos points out that fields in which women excel--and are acknowledged--receive less prestige than other fields. On the university level, those genres in which women have demonstrated competence are not taken as seriously as those dominated by men. In practical terms, academia affords more glory for teaching literature than for teaching rhetoric and composition. Within the field of rhetoric and composition, however, Enos finds it difficult to determine why the accomplishments of women receive less credit than those of men. She speculates as to whether it is part of the larger pattern in society--and in academia--to value men more than women or something in the field itself that keeps women from real power, even though women make up the majority of composition and rhetoric teachers. Enos provides fascinating personal histories of composition and rhetoric teachers whose work has been largely disregarded. She also provides information about writing programs, teaching, administrative responsibilities, ranks among teachers, ages, salary, tenure status, distribution of research, service responsibilities, records of publication, and promotion and tenure guidelines."

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Author:   Theresa Enos (Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona, USA)
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.064kg
ISBN:  

9780809320417

ISBN 10:   080932041
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Rhetoric and composition studies as a whole is devalued, in part because it is 'women's work'; what rewards there are have mostly gone to men. Based on a national study of writing teachers through four sources, this book reports on the professional lives of writing faculty, mostly women. --Theresa Enos, from the Preface

"""Rhetoric and composition studies as a whole is devalued, in part because it is 'women's work'; what rewards there are have mostly gone to men. Based on a national study of writing teachers through four sources, this book reports on the professional lives of writing faculty, mostly women.""--Theresa Enos, from the Preface"

"""Rhetoric and composition studies as a whole is devalued, in part because it is women s work; what rewards there are have mostly gone to men. Based on a national study of writing teachers through four sources, this book reports on the professional lives of writing faculty, mostly women.""Theresa Enos, from the Preface"""

<p> Rhetoric and composition studies as a whole is devalued, in part because it is 'women's work'; what rewards there are have mostly gone to men. Based on a national study of writing teachers through four sources, this book reports on the professional lives of writing faculty, mostly women. --Theresa Enos, from the Preface

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Theresa Enos is an associate professor of English at the University of Arizona. Editor of Rhetoric Review, her most recent book is Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age. She edited Learning from the Rhetorics of History: Essays in Honor of Winifred Bryan Horner, also available from Southern Illinois University Press.

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