Explores the varying virtual, physical, cultural and institutional contexts influencing the nature of electronic space for women, and, the intersection of feminisms, power, authority, voice, and computer technologies.
Thirteen essays explore the varying virtual, physical, cultural and institutional contexts influencing the nature of electronic space for women and explore the intersection of feminisms, power, authority, voice, and computer technologies. It also contains four interviews with prominent scholars, which historicize the disciplinary formation of computers and composition and the impact of technology on the professional lives of women. This collection continues the ongoing conversation exploring the theoretical, pedagogical, and political implications of computer technologies for composition studies, with an primary audience of teachers and theorists of writing in electronic environments.
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Explores the varying virtual, physical, cultural and institutional contexts influencing the nature of electronic space for women, and, the intersection of feminisms, power, authority, voice, and computer technologies.
Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Patricia Sullivan Introduction: Mapping the Terrain of Feminist Cyberscapes 1(20) Kristine Blair Pamela Takayoshi Map of Location I: The Body in Virtual Space Technological Fronts: Lesbian Lives ``On the Line 21(20) Joanne Addison Susan Hilligoss Postmodernist Looks at the Body Electric: E-mail, Female, and Hijra 41(22) S. J. Sloane Re-Membering Mama: The Female Body in Embodied and Disembodied Communication 63(42) Barbara Monroe An Interview with Helen Schwartz 83(22) Map of Location II: Constructions of Online Identities: Our Students, Our Selves ``I, a Mestiza, Continually Walk out of One Culture into Another: Albas Story 105(28) Sibylle Gruber Pedagogy, Emotion, and the Protocol of Care 133(20) Shannon Wilson Writing (Without) the Body: Gender and Power in Networked Discussion Groups 153(42) Donna LeCourt An Interview with Gail Hawisher 177(18) Map of Location III: Discourse Communities Online and in Classrooms A Virtual Locker Room in Classroom Chat Spaces: The Politics of Men as ``Other 195(32) Christine Boese The Use of Electronic Communication in Facilitating Feminine Modes of Discourse: An Irigaraian Heuristic 227(30) Morgan Gresham Cecilia Hartley Over the Line, Online, Gender Lines: E-mail and Women in the Classroom 257(28) Dene Grigar Map of Location IV: Virtual Coalitions and Collaborations Designing Feminist Multimedia for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women 285(12) Mary E. Hocks Voicing the Landscape: A Discourse of Their Own 297(30) Paula Gillespie Laura Julier Kathleen Blake Yancey Thirteen Ways of Looking at an M-Word 327(50) Margaret Daisley Susan Romano An Interview with Mary Lay and Elizabeth Tebeaux 357(20) Map of Location V: The Future: To Be Mapped Later Feminist Research in Computers and Composition 377(66) Lisa Gerrard An Online Dialogue with the Contributors 405(26) Mapping the Future: An Interview with Cynthia Selfe 431(12) Author Index 443(6) Subject Index 449(4) About the Editors 453(2) About the Contributors 455
KRISTINE BLAIR is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches in the doctoral program in Rhetoric and Writing and the undergraduate Integrated Language Arts program. A proponent of media and technology literacy, her emphasis is upon technology and teacher training, electronic teaching portfolios, adn the politics of online teaching and learning. She currently serves as Associate Director at BGSU's Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology.
PAMELA TAKAYOSHI is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville.
