Feminist challenges or feminist rhetorics? : locations, scholarship, discourse / edited by Kirsti Cole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cole, Kirsti, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Rhetorics.

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The chapters collected in this book generate discussion about the intersections of feminisms and rhetorics, as well as the ways in which those intersections are productive. This collection focuses on the locations of feminist rhetorics, the various discourses that invoke ""feminism"" or ""feminist,"" and the scholarship that provokes, challenges, and deliberates issues of key concern. In focusing on challenge and location, this collection acknowledges the academic and socio-discursive spaces that...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CATHERINE LIVINGSTON GARRETTSONAND INTEGRATED MALE-FEMALE SPHERESIN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC; SITES OF WRITING; "COME SIT AT THE TABLE WITH US"; MAKING SPACE FOR WRITING; "MADNESS" AS A RHETORICAL TOOL; PART II; WHEN FREE SPEECH COURTS COMPASSION; WHEN WOMEN KILL NEWBORNS; POLITICS OF CARE AND EMOTIONAT CAMP CASEY; RHETORIC OF RIOT; IF NOT A MOTHER AND NOT A MAID,THENWHAT?HOW FEMINIST PEDAGOGYWORKS(OR DOESN'T) FOR FIRST-YEARTEACHING ASSISTANTS; "THAT'S A BLONDE REMARK"; INTERSPACES; FEMINISM AND ZINES; PART III

REWORKING LANDSCAPESECHO AS VENTRILOQUIST; OPEN UP THE NET(WORK); RECONTEXTUALIZING FEMINIST RHETORIC; PART IV; UNVEILING THE VIOLENCE OF HARMONY; FEMINIST-INDIGENOUS RHETORICSOF SURVIVANCE AND DISCURSIVE SPACESIN S. ALICE CALLAHAN'SWYNEMA: A CHILD OF THE FOREST; RESISTING AUTHORITATIVE DISCOURSE; TOWARD A CHICANA FEMINISTBODY POLITICS; CULTURAL RHETORIC OF THE SARI; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5775-0

OCLC:

875097210