Casting And Recasting Gender: Children Constituting Social Identities Through Literacy Practices

Authors

Diane Downer Anderson, Swarthmore CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2002

Published In

Research In The Teaching Of English

Abstract

Considers how gender, identity and literacy are entangled and mutually constitutive. Concludes that social experience, desire, proximate others, and the ways in which children can draw upon these in the classroom are aspects of the situated condition that deserve more prominence in literacy and identity research.

Comments

This work is freely available courtesy of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Recommended Citation

Diane Downer Anderson. (2002). "Casting And Recasting Gender: Children Constituting Social Identities Through Literacy Practices". Research In The Teaching Of English. Volume 36, Issue 3. 391-427.
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