
Gendered Literacy
My dissertation research examined the gendered
nature of literacy practices across a range of activity settings in two
bilingual classrooms in California. My interest was in understanding what
they learn about social relations and how they construct gendered identities
in the process of developing literacy.
Papers based on this research
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1996). "Negotiating
Power Through Language in Classroom Meetings." Linguistics and Education,
8, 334-365. (Earlier version appears as "Negotiating Power: Critical
Literacy Practices in a Bilingual Classroom" in Resources in Education.
Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics.)
Michelle Commeyras, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Bruce Bertram, and Lori
Neilsen. (1996). "Why Feminist Theory and Literacy Research?: Four
Responses." Reading Research Quarterly, 31 (4): 458-468.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1995). "Texts, Talk, Tasks, and Take-up:
Literacy as a Gendered Social Practice in Two Bilingual Classrooms,"
Reading Research Quarterly, 30 (4): 674-708.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1995). "Saliéndose con la Suya:
Literacy, Gender and Choice in a Bilingual Classroom." In Mary Bucholtz,
A.C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, & Caitlin Hines. Cultural Performances:
Proceedings of the Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA:
Berkeley Women and Language Group.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1999). "Good Guys, 'Bad' Girls: Identity
Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers." In Mary Bucholtz,
A.C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton (Eds.) Reinventing Identities: Social Categories
in Language and Gender Research. Oxford University Press. (Earlier version
appears as "Good Guys, Bad Girls: Gendered Identity Construction
in a Writing Workshop." Resources in Education. Washington, D.C.:
ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education, April, 1995.)
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