num_pages: 320
description: Composing Gender explores questions around the central concept of Is gender binary or more complicated? How do we define gender and sexuality? What stereotypes expectations and rituals shape gender? What influence does the media have on gender? Readings by a range of feminist scholars journalists gender theorists biologists legal scholars sociologists and others take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The Web site for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources. The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting new line of single-theme readers each featuring Bedfords trademark care and quality. The readers in the series collect carefully chosen readings sufficient for an entire writing courseabout 30 selectionsto allow instructors to provide carefully developed high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students make inquiries from multiple perspectives opening up topics such as money food sustainability and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters each focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. An Editorial Board of more than a dozen compositionists at schools focusing on specific themes have assisted in the development of the series.
language: English
title: Composing Gender: A Bedford Spotlight Reader
publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's