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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.
List of contents
Mapping the Terrain of Feminist Cyberscapes, Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi
Map of Location I: The Body in Virtual SpaceTechnological Fronts: Lesbian Lives "On the Line," Joanne Addison and Susan Hilligoss
Postmodernist Looks at the Body Electric: Email, Female and Hijra, Sarah Sloane
Re-Membering Mama: The Female Body Embodied and Disembodied Communication, Barbara Monroe
Making the Map: Interview with Helen Schwartz
Map of Location II: Constructions of Online Identities; Our Studnets, Our SelvesI, A Mestiza, Continually Walk Out of One Culture Into Another: Alba's Story, Sibylle Gruber
Pedagogy, Emotion and The Protocol of Care, Shannon Wilson. Writing (Without) The Body: Gender and Power in Networked Discussion Groups, Donna LeCourt
Making the Map: Interview with Gail Hawisher
Map of Location III: Discourse Communities Online and in ClassroomsA Virtual Locker Room in Classroom Chat Spaces: The Politics of Men as "Other," Christine Boese
The Use of Electronic Communication in Facilitating Feminine Modes of Discourse: An Irigaraian Heuristic, Morgan Gresham and Cecilia Hartley
Over the Line, Online, Gender Lines: Email and Women in the Classroom, Dene Grigar
Maps of Location IV: Virtual Coalitions and CollaborationsDesigning Feminist Multimedia for The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Mary Hocks
Voicing The Landscape: A Discourse of Their Own, Laura Julier, Paula Gillespie, And Kathleen Blake Yancey
Thirteen Ways of Looking at an M-Word, Margaret Daisley and Susan Romano
Making The Map: Interview With Mary Lay and Elizabeth Tebeaux
Map of Location V: The Future: to be Mapped LaterFeminist Research in Computers and Composition, Lisa Gerrard
An Online Dialogue with the Contributors to Feminist Cyberscapes
Mapping the Future: Interview with Cynthia Selfe
About the author
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.
