Wild Words/Dangerous Desires explores the struggles of young women who try to define themselves with, and against, the pleasures, premises, and practices that mark the female subject in feminist avant-garde writing. Drawing on a study of six high school girls, it traces the affective and intellectual investments that encourage young women to embrace and /or resist the woman produced in this writing. A highly readable and entertaining account, this text offers a sophisticated analysis of female adolescent desire and identification in reading and writing acts. Such an analysis also serves to highlight the investments of feminist educators. For both teachers and scholars, the text will prove useful in explicating the complexities of transformative education.
| ISBN: | 9780820438610 |
| Publication date: | 4th May 2000 |
| Author: | Helen J Harper |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 186 pages |
| Series: | Counterpoints |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Language teaching theory and methods Gender studies: women and girls Philosophy and theory of education Secondary schools Teaching skills and techniques |