Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Feminism: 1973-2000 / Edition 1

by Cheryl Glenn, Andrea Lunsford

Overview

"Feminism" and "rhetoric" have not always been overlapping terms. While neglected as subjects of scholarly interest for many years, women were nonetheless developing rhetorical practices and traditions all along. In recent decades women writers, speakers, and feminist scholars have forged new theories of and practices for feminist rhetoric. These women have struggled to see, re-shape, and re-deploy the rhetorical tradition in ways that not only admit but embrace and celebrate women and feminist understandings to the benefit of all people. This volume is the culmination of much of the work done by those scholars.

Edited by the leading experts in field, Cheryl Glenn and Andrea A. Lunsford, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Feminism earns its significance in several key ways: it includes work done by scholars from departments of communication, English, and writing studies as well as a variety of public intellectuals; it traces a series of encounters between rhetoric and feminism during the last three decades; and it highlights five themes that represent the history of encounters between rhetoric and feminism including (1) recovery and recuperation, (2) methods and methodologies, (3) practices and performances, (4) pedagogical applications and implications, and (5) new theories and histories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415642149
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/17/2014
Series:	Landmark Essays Series
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cheryl Glenn is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University

Andrea A. Lunsford is Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English, Emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Rhetoric and Feminism: Forging Alliances Andrea A. Lunsford and Cheryl Glenn INTRODUCTORY MOVES The Rhetoric of Women’s Liberation: An Oxymoron, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Women’s Speech: Separate but Unequal?, Cheris Kramerae RECOVERY AND RECUPERATION Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric, Barbara Biesecker Sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric, Cheryl Glenn Black Women on the Speaker’s Platform (1832-1899), Shirley Wilson Logan METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES Speaking to the Past: Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric, Susan C. Jarratt When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own, Jacqueline Jones Royster Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference Do They Make?, Patricia Bizzell PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCES The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Audre Lorde How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldúa On Reclaiming Rhetorica, Andrea A. Lunsford PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Composing as a Woman, Elizabeth A. Flynn The Other ‘F’ Word: The Feminist in the Classroom, Dale M. Bauer Voice: The Search for a Feminist Rhetoric for Educational Studies, Madeleine R. Grumet NEW THEORIES AND HISTORIES The Womanization of Rhetoric, Sally Miller Gearhart Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric, Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin Border Crossings: Intersections of Rhetoric and Feminism, Lisa Ede, Cheryl Glenn, and Andrea Lunsford

Editorial Reviews

These stunning essays, intrepid in their own time, remain a provocative challenge to the central assumptions of Western rhetoric. Deftly edited, they record the powerful role of feminist rhetoricians in creating new paradigms of theory, history, and pedagogy based in recognition, understanding, and collaboration. Arabella Lyon, University at Buffalo

Cheryl Glenn and Andrea A. Lunsford offer scholars of rhetoric and feminism an invaluable anthology, which features essays on recovery and recuperation, methods and methodologies, practices and performances, pedagogical applications and implications, and new theories and histories.

Their selection of essays is exceptional in representing a range of standpoints and placing them in productive dialogue with each other.

Considerations of sex, race, gender, class and other social differences are integral throughout the collection. The perspectives and performances of activists, critics, and theorists of feminism and rhetoric are made easily available for advanced study. Lester C. Olson, University of Pittsburgh

The productive tensions within "and"—a word of opposition, juxtaposition, connection, and continuation—resonate throughout this collection of seventeen formative essays on rhetoric and feminism ranging from the 1970s through the 1990s. Ultimately, the collection invites readers to wonder "and what’s next?" Michele Kennerly, The Pennsylvania State University

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