Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies

Eileen Schell, K. J. Rawson, Eileen E Schell, K. J. Rawson, Eileen E. Schell

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780822973676
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations of feminist rhetoric.The volume examines familiar themes, such as archival, literary, and online research, but also looks to other areas of rhetoric, such as disability studies; gerontology/aging studies; Latina/o, queer, and transgender studies; performance studies; and transnational feminisms in both the United States and larger geopolitical spaces. Rhetorica in Motion incorporates previous views of feminist research, outlines a set of principles that guides current methods, and develops models for undertaking future inquiry, including working as individuals or balancing the dynamics of group research. The text explores how feminist research embodies what has come before and reflects what researchers, institutions, and instructors bring to it and what it brings to them. Underlying the discovery of this volume is the understanding that feminist rhetoric is in constant motion in a dynamic that resists definition.

Index

academic women in virtual environments, 141–42

active imagination, 128–30

affirmative action model of history, 13

Afrafeminist research methods, 4

African American women, 11, 32

agency, defining as means of enacting, 100

agents, research subjects as, 140

agent/victim binary, 63–64

Ahmed, Sara, 186, 188, 196n1

ambiguity, intentional, 175

anachronistic labeling, 49

analysis: gendered, 40; intersectional, 14–15; of power dynamics, 49; rhetorical, 96; of travel, 76

Angier, Natalie, 140–41

anthologies of recovered women rhetors, 45

anti-immigration rhetoric of early twentieth century, 30

Anzaldúa, Gloria, 48, 105, 113

archival research, 121, 122, 129–30

Aspasia, 15

assignment sketches: creating interruptions, 186–87; inventional argument, 185–86; parody and discourse, 184–85; pragmatic value of, 187–88

attunement, 99

Atwill, Janet, 90

Available Means (Ritchie and Ronald), 11, 44–45, 95–96, 173–74

Ballif, Michelle, 13

Barnard, Ian, 46

Barthes, Roland, 72

basic writers, 80

Baynton, Douglas, 33

Berlo, Janet Catherine, 132–33

Biemann, Ursula, 55, 61–68, 193n5

Biesecker, Barbara, 12–13, 44, 94–95

bifocal standpoint, 181

Bizzell, Patricia, 4, 15, 97

blindness, students with, 25, 28

blogs, 152, 161–64

Bornstein, Kate, 192n6

Bourdain, Anthony, 73

Brandt, Deborah, 144

Bromseth, Janne, 153, 159–61, 164–65, 169

Bruckman, Amy, 162, 196n5

Bustamante, Maris, 68–69

Calhoun, Cheshire, 125

Califia, Patrick, 47, 192n5

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, 12–13, 44, 94–95

Campbell-Biesecker exchange, 44, 94–95

canonization, 39, 42–44

canons: feminist rhetorical, 39–40, 42–46; of invention and arrangement, 93, 100

capitalism: expansion of, and English language acquisition, 71

care, alternatives to, 125–26

care ethic, 122–23, 155

care/justice relationship, 123–24

chatroom research, 162

Chodorow, Joan, 128

Chomsky, Noam, 136–37

cisgender, defined, 192n4

Cixous, Helene, 178, 180

Clifford, James,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Researching Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies
• One. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
• Two. Reflective Applications
• Three. Pedagogical Postscript
• Notes
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index