Life Writing as Social Acts

[...]both Maher's admiration for and ambivalence toward her subject indicate an interest in acknowledging the intersection between the personal and the professional and a need for positive leads in negotiating the conflicts within and across these two areas of life. [...]Maher's Shaughness...

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Published inCollege Composition and Communication Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 119 - 131
Main Authors Lu, Min-Zhan, Robertson, Elizabeth
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.09.1999
Subjects
Basic Writing
Biographies
Graduate Students
Leaders
Open Enrollment
Professional Identity
Reviews
Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Writing Teachers
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Summary:[...]both Maher's admiration for and ambivalence toward her subject indicate an interest in acknowledging the intersection between the personal and the professional and a need for positive leads in negotiating the conflicts within and across these two areas of life. [...]Maher's Shaughnessy models two ways of living our professional lives: (1) contest the divisions between theoretical knowledge and lived experience, academic and social interests, scholarship and teaching, literature and composition, and administration and faculty; and (2) put the interest of "disadvantaged" students above all else. [...]by including comments on Shaughnessy's beauty, Maher acknowledges the work performed by "presence"-the ways it affects working relations. [...]we too might expect someone like Shaughnessy to construct the personal as well as the professional against the dominant grain of social institutions which deny the interest of women.
ISSN:0010-096X
1939-9006
DOI:10.2307/358968