TY - BOOK AU - Kathleen Dixon PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Making Relationships T2 - Gender in the Forming of Academic Community UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1085878 N2 - Making Relationships: Gender in the Forming of Academic Community presents two case studies of student-teacher writing conferences to make visible what is usually invisible in academe: the «personal.» It shows that successful academic community may be most easily achieved by students and teachers who create relationships marked by masculine themes and values - and that this may be true even when the teacher is a feminist woman. If change is to occur, the author argues, compositionists must rethink both contemporary composition and gender theories and develop new ways of representing narrative and other expressive discourses. KW - themes, values, theories LA - English ER -