Full Description
In a climate of anxiety about boys and reading, this book addresses the gendering of English Studies, drawing on recent research on masculinity. In drawing together the study of text and narrative with insight into the experience of the classroom, this book will be of value to both teachers and students of English Studies.
Contents
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Masculinities in Text and Teaching; B.Knights Training to be an English Teacher: Negotiating Gendered Subjectivities and the Gendered Curriculum as Inter-Linked Cultural Processes; W.Martino Queer Teaching/Teaching Queer: Renaissance Masculinities and the Seminar; M.Dooley Charlotte Dacre's Nymphomaniacs and Demon Lovers: Teaching Female Masculinities; R.Chatterjee Masculinity and Modernism: Teaching D.H. Lawrence; R.Burden Gender and Narrative Form; R.Page Bois will be Bois: Masculinity and Pedagogy in the Gay and Lesbian Studies Classroom; D.Allen Curricula Constructions of Race and Gender: Reading African-American Masculinity; R.Carroll Lifelong Learning in the Lifelong Poem; C.Thurgar-Dawson Autobiographical Narratives in the Teaching of Masculinities; J.Beynon Atrocity and Transitivity; C.Yelland Taking Possession of Knowledge: The Masculine Academic in Don De Lillo's White Noise ; R.Helyer High Visibility: Teaching Ladlit; A.Ferrebe Afterword Index
