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Bodily discourses : when students write about abuse and eating disorders
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Bodily discourses : when students write about abuse and eating disorders

Author: Michelle Payne
Publisher: Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Bodily Discourses is based upon a study that draws from twenty-five student essays, as well as interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. It is the first book to move beyond teachers' typical concerns about how to respond and grade such "personal essays" to ask instead: Why are students writing about these subjects? How are they writing about them? What assumptions inform teachers' responses? What larger cultural  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Anecdotes
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Payne, Michelle.
Bodily discourses.
Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2000
(OCoLC)664645813
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michelle Payne
ISBN: 0867094710 9780867094718
OCLC Number: 42889760
Description: xxvi, 166 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. This Weepy World of Confessions --
2. It's Like It Never Even Happened: Situating Student Texts within Discursive Traditions of Writing About Sexual Violence --
3. "The Bruises Were Inside of Me": Writing the Hungry Body --
4. "Sometimes I Just Want to Beat the Shit Out of You!": Anger and the Making of Knowledge in a Writing Classroom
Responsibility: Michelle Payne.

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When students submit disturbing essays, many argue that topics such as bodily violence and eating disorders do not belong in the writing classroom. The author examines the anxiety behind such  Read more...
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