Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition

Author: Theresa Enos
ISBN: 9780809320417

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 condition

Publisher: SIU Press
Publish Date: 1996

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing, Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)