Networking arguments : rhetoric, transnational feminism, and public policy writing / Rebecca Dingo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dingo, Rebecca Ann, 1975- author.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social networks.

Women.

Sex role and globalization.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Rhetoric.

Rhetorical criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Networking Arguments presents an original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally, and how it's often reconfigured to work both for and against women and to maintain existing power structures. To see how rhetorics travel, Dingo deconstructs the central terminology employed by global institutions-mainstreaming, fitness, and empowerment-and shows how their meanings shift depending on the contexts in which they're used. She studies programs by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the United States, among others, to view the original policies, then follows the trail of their diffusion and manipulation and the ultimate consequences for individuals. To analyze transnational rhetorical processes, Dingo builds a theoretical framework by employing concepts of transcoding, ideological traffic, and interarticulation to uncover the intricacies of power relationships at work within networks. She also views transnational capitalism, neoliberal economics, and neocolonial ideologies as primary determinants of policy and arguments over women's roles in the global economy. Networking Arguments offers a new method of feminist rhetorical analysis that allows for an increased understanding of global gender policies and encourages strategies to counteract the negative effects they can create.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Networking arguments

Gender mainstreaming

Fitness

Empowerment

Afterword: networking arguments as a writing process for the new millennium

Notes

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822977889

0822977885

OCLC:

793012707