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.

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The Author: Kathleen Dixon, an assistant professor of English at the University of North Dakota, earned her Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan in 1991, the same year in which she won the Mina Shaughnessy Writing Award. Her contributions to the field of composition and rhetoric include several essays on literacy, gender, and cultural studies, as well as a forthcoming edited collection, Outbursts in Academe: Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice.