Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics
Landmark Essays and Controversies
Published on 12. January 2010
504 pages
978-1-60235-137-0 (ISBN)
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Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies gathers significant, oft-cited scholarship about feminism and rhetoric into one convenient volume. Essays examine the formation of the vibrant and growing field of feminist rhetoric; feminist historiographic research methods and methodologies; and women's distinct sites, genres, and styles of rhetoric. The book's most innovative and pedagogically useful feature is its presentation of controversies in the form of case studies, each consisting of exchanges between or among scholars about significant questions.
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Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics
Landmark Essays and Controversies
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01/2010
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Content
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Chronological Subject Listing of Historiographic Essays
- Foreword
- Talking the Talk/Walking the Walk: The Path of Feminist Rhetorics
- Kate Ronald
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Walking and Talking through the Field of Feminist Rhetorics
- Part 1. Charting the Emergence of Feminist Rhetorics
- Introduction to Man Cannot Speak for Her
- Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
- Speaking to the Past: Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric
- Susan C. Jarratt
- sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric
- Cheryl Glenn
- Border Crossings: Intersections of Rhetoric and Feminism
- Lisa Ede, Cheryl Glenn, and Andrea Lunsford1
- Bathsheba's Dilemma: Defining, Discovering, and Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetoric(s)
- Krista Ratcliffe
- Part 2. Articulating and Enacting Feminist Methods and Methodologies
- Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference Do They Make?
- Patricia Bizzell
- The Historical Catalina Hernández: Inhabiting the Topoi of Feminist Historiography
- Susan Romano
- The Speaker Respoken: Material Rhetoric as Feminist Methodology
- Vicki Tolar Collins (Burton)
- Historical Studies of Rhetorical Women Here and There: Methodological Challenges to Dominant Interpretive Frameworks
- Hui Wu
- Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetorics of Sterilization Abuse
- Jessica Enoch
- Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in a Digital World
- Mary Queen
- Part 3. Exploring Gendered Sites, Genres, and Styles of Rhetoric
- Conversation and the Boundaries of Public Discourse in Rhetorical Theory by Renaissance Women
- Jane Donawerth
- The "Promiscuous Audience" Controversy and the Emergence of the Early Woman's Rights Movement
- Susan Zaeske
- Black Women on the Speaker's Platform (1832-1899)
- Shirley Wilson Logan
- Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space in Postbellum America
- Nan Johnson
- Woman's Temple, Women's Fountains: The Erasure of Public Memory
- Carol Mattingly
- "Feminine Style" and Political Judgment in the Rhetoric of Ann Richards
- Bonnie J. Dow and Mari Boor Tonn
- Part 4. Examining Controversies: Four Case Studies
- Case Study 1
- Debating Disciplinary Directions: Recovery versus Retheorizing
- Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric
- Barbara Biesecker
- Biesecker Cannot Speak for Her Either
- Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
- Case Study 2
- Debating the Aims of Discourse: Persuasive versus Invitational Rhetoric
- Samuel R. Evans
- Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric
- Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin
- In Praise of Eloquent Diversity: Gender and Rhetoric as Public Persuasion
- Celeste Michelle Condit
- Case Study 3
- Debating Causality: Women and the Demise of Rhetorical Education
- Gender Influences: Composition-Rhetoric as an Irenic Rhetoric
- Robert J. Connors
- Feminization of Rhetoric?
- Roxanne Mountford
- Case Study 4
- Debating Ethos: Traditional versus Feminist Research Methods
- Barbara Hebert
- Historical Studies and Postmodernism: Rereading Aspasia of Miletus
- Xin Liu Gale
- Comment: Truth, Lies, and Method: Revisiting Feminist Historiography
- Cheryl Glenn
- Comment: Rhetoric and Feminism: Together Again
- Susan C. Jarratt
- Selected Bibliography
- Works Cited
- Index
- Selected Bibliography
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Editors
- Back cover
