Examines public and private writings of low-income urban,
pre-adolescent girls, illuminating ways that girl's voice are often
silenced in schools and society.
She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth grade urban
girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book
underscores the importance of including all of the girls' voices
into the curriculum where their voices can be nurtured, cultured,
and responded to in potentially productive ways.
Through an exploration of two major writing contexts, the public
and the private, Brett Elizabeth Blake chronicles how the girls
learned through their writing not only how to name issues salient
to them, such as domesticity and racism, but also how to resist the
underlying notions of such important issues. The girls' stories are
based on nearly three years of study, and the traditional notion of
a process approach to writing is challenged by addressing how such
an approach must become a site for significant tension and struggle
over issues like ownership and voice. Blake suggests several
curricular strategies, such as reader response techniques and a
violence-prevention unit, as additional approaches that support
girls' voices. This book explores and challenges us to look more
closely at how the intersection of gender, race, and class is
crucial for understanding not only how and what girls write about,
but also why they write so deliberately and poignantly about their
lives.
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