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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792032903321

Autore

Pearce Lynne

Titolo

The rhetorics of feminism : readings in contemporary cultural theory and the popular press / / Lynne Pearce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-14181-9

0-203-60369-9

1-299-28867-7

1-135-14173-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Disciplina

808/.0082

Soggetti

Feminism and literature

Women and literature

Feminist literary criticism

Feminist literature - History and criticism

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 (p. [227]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Pronouns -- pt. 2. Arguments.

Sommario/riassunto

Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made?  Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and Germaine Greer - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated through the frameworks in which it is presented.  By linking rhetorical innovation with feminist epistemology in such a direct way, this is a book that will be of immense methodological as well as theoretic