Retellings : opportunities for feminist research in rhetoric and composition studies /

Chapters address one of four aspects: the place of feminist rhetoric in contemporary (real-world and transnational) politics; the relationship between feminist rhetorical studies and identity studies; the prospects for feminist research methods and methodologies; and the feminist rhetorical commitme...

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Other Authors: Enoch, Jessica (Editor), Jack, Jordynn, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2019]
Series:Lauer series in rhetoric and composition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The endless opportunities for feminist research / Jessica Enoch, Jordynn Jack, and Cheryl Glenn
  • Part I: Feminist rhetoric in contemporary global politics. Bending toward justice: women's rhetorical performances - local and transnational, then and now / Shirley Wilson Logan ; Silence and listening: the war on/over women's bodies in the 2012 US election cycle / Krista Ratcliffe ; "Beyond-gender" analysis of power relations in language: the case of net hate in the Nordic countries / Brigitte Mral, translated by Judith Rinker Öhman ; Philanthropic war narratives and spectacular protection scenarios / Berit von der Lippe.
  • Part II: Feminist rhetoric and identity studies. "As sisters in Zion": constructing Mormon women's identity through the spatial topos of Zion / Rosalyn Collings Eves ; Closets and classification: the archive as an epistemic resource for identity / Jean Bessette.
  • Part III: Feminist methods and methodologies. Institutional "protections," assumptions of research, and the challenges of compliance: opening a conversation space for feminist scholars working with participants / Heather Brook Adams ; Abuela, si estas aquí: writing our histories as liberatory praxis / Cristina D. Ramírez ; Opening the scholarly conversation / Wendy B. Sharer ; Fragile archives: questions of survival, rhetorical listening, and breast cancer narrative / Anita Helle.
  • Part IV: Feminist teaching and mentoring. "I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations": reading the world with black middle school girls / Elaine Richardson ; In theory and practice: constructing an embodied feminist rhetorical pedagogy / A. Abby Knoblauch ; Teaching interpretive agency: introducing constructed potentiality into rhetorical training / Sonja K. Foss and Karen A. Foss ; Re-inscribing mentoring / Michelle Eble and Lynée Lewis Gaillet.