Alexander

Synthesis

Jonathan Alexander's article "Transgender Rhetorics: Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body" can be synthesized with Wardle, Gee, Glenn, Pollan, and Swales. All of these article are similar because they all talk about being in a discourse community. Although they all do not specifically talk about being in a discourse community, they are all examples of specific discourse communities and tell us how they work.

Dialectical Notebook

Response	Quotation
I agree with this  quote and also agree with the questions to ask the students or instructors.	“I think these are good questions that ask students-and instructors- to trace the genealogy of gender as a disciplinary construct of power and knowledge in our society.” (pg. 196)
I agree with this quote because it is good to know the history of a women’s experience when studying feminism.	“In a great many ways, telling the story women’s experience has been at the heart of many feminist project in composition.” (pg. 196)
This quote is important because it shows how these beliefs came to be.	“Lesbians and gays ‘transgress’ this binary pairing, potentially casting the gender dichotomy upon which heterosexuality is based into disarray or at least question.” (pg. 198)
This quote is important because it emphasizes how our culture has certain norms.	“Acknowledging the presence of the transgendered is useful not only for understanding whose who are differently gendered of whose presentation or experience of gender falls outside our ‘norms’.” (pg. 200)
I like this quote because it is interesting and shows a different side of the argument and study.	“Interestingly enough, transgender and transsexual theorists such as Prosser have argued forcefully that it is in the examination of narrations of gender that we come to a fuller and richer understanding of its composition.” (pg. 211)
This quote is important because it tells us how trans theorist contribute to the study.	“Trans theorist can help us undertake this work.” (pg. 213)

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfnvGCqdsKY&feature=related

This is a video from America's Next Top Model. The video talks about the transgender contestant and how she was accepted and the controversy around it.