Alexander (What is the point of reading about this?)

Synthesis.

Alexander's article, "Transgender Rhetorics:(Re)Composing Narratives of the gendered body" can be related to some people that we have just read about. One person is Malinowitz. I say this because she talks about gay and lesbian discourses. A second person that can relate is Flynn. Flynn talks about the feminist inquiry which can relate to Alexander's article. This can also relate to Swales because of fitting into a discourse community. (Basically everyone that talks about discourse communities can fit into this synthesis).

Response

Quotation

I like how this set up the article.

"This essay attempts to demonstrate how transgender theories can inspire pedagogical methods that complement feminist compositionist pedagogical apporches to understanding the narration of gender as a social construct" (195).

I do not want to read this article after reading this. WHY ARE WE READING ABOUT THIS?

"As a queer feminist compositionist, I have given a lot of thought to the relationships among narrative, identity, gender, and the teaching of writing" (195).

This is an opinion and it shows voice.

"Over the last three decades, numerous composition scholars who have been influenced by feminist have undertaken an examination of how gender is a multivalent construct whose identity- and community- shaping power needs interrogation in our classrooms, our teacherly performances, and our students' writing" (196).

This is another opinion showing voice.

"Some scholar-teachers have suggested that such identity interrogation along the axes of sexuality and gender is important for both students and instructors" (198).

I am not sure what I think about this.

"In many ways, trans theorists, activists, and writers are equally invested in engendering in others a "critical awareness" about gender and in opening up a "scene of agency, a sense of possibility" about what gender means - and could mean - as a construct that is simultaneously deeply personal and profoundly political" (200).

I do not agree with this.

"Acknowledging the presence of the transgendered is useful not only for understanding those who are differently gendered or whose presentation or experience of gender falls outside our "norms":'but also for helping us interrogate the constructs of gender that we often take for granted as "natural" or "normal"" (200).

Thoughts.

Why are we even reading about this? I didn't like reading about this at all. I am also not taking anything away from this. If anything, reading this article made me more upset. This is pointless information to me and I do not understand why this is relevant to making me a better writer.

Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izUQnvlso3E

This relates to this article because she is a transgender and deals a lot with with writing. I do not agree with it at all.