Table of Contents:
  • A textual tradition : ordinary writing as cultural pedagogy
  • A world lettered by codes : commonplace powers
  • The schooled commonplace : writing along new lines
  • Home improvements : culture as pedagogy
  • True biases: "A defective and naturally bad system"
  • The class on gender
  • Gender as discourse
  • Learning to spell patriarchy : fathers and sons
  • Coda
  • Fundamentals of authorship : rewriting commonplace desires.