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- Title: Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (Book Review)
- Author : Journal of International Women's Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 191 KB
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Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies. Jonathan Alexander. 2008. Logan, UT: Utah State UP. 225 pp. Endnotes, bibliography and index are included. $24.95 (paperback). In Literacy, Sexuality, and Pedagogy." Theory and Practice for Composition Studies, Jonathan Alexander brings sexuality into conversation with critical composition pedagogy. Alexander opens his text with an introduction aimed at defining what he calls sexual literacy and unveiling the organic connections between feminist pedagogy, sexual literacy, and all other acts of literacy. The text is divided into three sites of praxis: (1) sites of theory and writing, (2) sites of pedagogy, (3) sites of resistance. Alexander's thesis is transparently identified as a critique of feminist pedagogies for failing to include sexuality in the mode of difference through which feminist and liberatory pedagogies address literacy acts; furthermore, Alexander argues for a need to queer the composition classroom in an effort to better authorize our literacy students in writing/reading their entire identities--not just those identities often legitimized in the public sphere.