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‘Men Couldn’t Imagine Women’s Lives’: Teaching Gender and Creative Writing

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Teaching Gender

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It is perhaps possible to write neutrally on gender, but rather pointless. The question I want to put is: ‘How should the creative writing workshop operate in a society that favours men over women?’, rather than framing a more balanced question: ‘In what ways does gender impact on the teaching of creative writing?’1

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  1. Liverpool John Moores University, UK

    Alice Ferrebe (Senior Lecturers in English) & Fiona Tolan (Senior Lecturers in English) (Senior Lecturers in English) &  (Senior Lecturers in English)

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Earnshaw, S. (2012). ‘Men Couldn’t Imagine Women’s Lives’: Teaching Gender and Creative Writing. In: Ferrebe, A., Tolan, F. (eds) Teaching Gender. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360778_6

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