Feminist rhetorical resilience

Feminist rhetorical resilience /

Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of "resilience" has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilie...

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Other Authors: Flynn, Elizabeth A., 1944-, Sotirin, Patricia J., Brady, Ann P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Feminist theory.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Women > Communication.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
Feminist theory
Rhetoric > Social aspects
Women > Communication
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Feminist Rhetorical Resilience-Possibilities and Impossibilities
  • Elizabeth A. Flynn, Patricia Sotirin, and Ann Brady; 1. Vandana Shiva and the Rhetorics of Biodiversity: Engaging Difference and Transnational Feminist Solidarities in a Globalized World
  • Eileen E. Schell; Response On the Politics of Writing Transnational Rhetoric: Possibilities and Pitfalls
  • Arabella Lyon and Banu Özel; Reflection
  • Eileen E. Schell; 2. The Traveling Fado
  • Kate Vieira; Response Traveling Literacies
  • Janet Carey Eldred; Reflection
  • Kate Vieira.
  • 3. Virginity and Hymen Reconstructions: Rural, Migrant Women as Agents of Literate Practices in Turkey
  • Iklim GokselResponse Problematizing Literacy
  • Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater; Reflection
  • Iklim Goksel; 4. Diversity and the Flexible Subject in the Language of Spousal/Partner Hiring Policies
  • Amy Koerber; Response Expanding the Sites of Struggle over the "Flexible Subject" in Academe
  • Shirley K Rose; Reflection
  • Amy Koerber; 5. A Case Study in Resilience: Fabricating a Feminine Self in a Man-Made Era
  • Frances J. Ranney.
  • Response Philanthropy as Interpretation, Not Charity: Jane Addams's Civic Housekeeping as Another Response to the Progressive Era
  • Kate RonaldReflection
  • Frances J. Ranney; 6. From "Mothers of the Nation" to "Mothers of the Race": Nineteenth-Century Feminists and Eugenic Rhetoric
  • Wendy Hayden; Response Strategic Collusion in the History of American Women Rhetors
  • Nan Johnson; Reflection
  • Wendy Hayden; 7. No One Wants to Go There: Resilience, Denial, and Possibilities for Queering the Writing Classroom
  • Jennifer DiGrazia and Lauren Rosenberg.
  • Response On Impossibility
  • Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan AlexanderReflection
  • Jennifer DiGrazia and Lauren Rosenberg; About the Authors; Index.

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