Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society Oct 2012 RSS

Laboring Bodies and Writing Work: The Pregnant First-Year Writing Instructor

Abstract

“In the pregnant composition teacher we see a dangerously stacked set of circumstances… Enclosed in a body that far exceeds her control, she is a microcosm for the larger system in which she must teach.”

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Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
Published
2012-10-18
Topics
first-year composition

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