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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789014503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5775-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism

Rhetorics

Women - Political activity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...