Gender and the Journal

Download or read book Gender and the Journal written by Associate Professor of English and Director of Core Writing Cinthia Gannett and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the gendered historical and social contexts and discursive traditions that have characterized journals and diaries in academic discourse. The tension between the term "journal," which has a variety of positive public and scholarly connotations, and the term "diary," which is currently understood as a feminized, trivial, and confessional kind of writing inappropriate for school, is a critical part of the problem. This book uses the developing and shifting notions of diary and journal to explore several critical questions about the larger relations between gender, language, canonicity, and academic discourse.