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« In 'Literacies, Lies, & Silences, ' Heather E. Bruce brings together a multidisciplinary body of scholarship on girls' psychosocial development, composition theory, and postmodern feminist theories to illuminate the vital function of writing in students' lives. The young women at Aspen Grove High School, whose women's studies class was the object of study, write to analyze and challenge powerful social ideologies that narrowly construct their lives. As they write, the students reconstruct transformative spaces for growth and agency that are unique to their own lives. Although this book foregrounds writing in a high school women's studies classroom, Bruce presents a compelling and lucid argument for the importance of writing in all disciplines, along with examples to guide teachers in creating empowering opportunities for their own students at all grade levels.

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The Author: Heather E. Bruce is Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Montana-Missoula. She received her Ph.D. in composition, rhetoric, and literacy and is the author of Conversations in Context: Reading, Writing, and Knowing at the University (with co-authors Kathryn Fitzgerald, Sharon Stasney, and Anna Vogt) and contributor to Peer Response Groups in Action: Writing Together in the Secondary Schools (Karen Spear, ed.). She has published widely in several professional journals.

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