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Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory

Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, and Cindy L. Griffin

 

This collection highlights the comprehensive, diverse, accessible body of work that exists on understanding symbol use from feminist perspectives. Selections from the works of nine contemporary feminist theorists allow readers to explore a variety of ways of framing experiences and events. The voices of Cheris Kramarae, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, Mary Daly, Starhawk, Paula Gunn Allen, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Sally Miller Gearhart, and Sonia Johnson challenge traditional viewpoints and encourage new ways of thinking. The selections address how social change happens, the strategies available to promote change, and the consequences of changing dominant practices and constructs. The editors worked with many of the theorists to choose representative works from different genres that exemplify the trajectory of their ideas. Brief introductions provide biographical details of the lives of the theorists and contextualize the key ideas in the works selected.

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 3/E

Feminist Rhetorical Theories

Inviting Transformation, 2/E

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 3/E

Feminist Rhetorical Theories

Inviting Transformation, 2/E

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric

Rhetorical Criticism, 4/E

Feminist Rhetorical Theories

Smith, Rhetoric and Human Consciousness, 2/E

$31.95 list, 319 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-497-3

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-497-0

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Table of Contents

1. Introducing Feminist Rhetorical Scholarship

2. Introduction to Cheris Kramarae

Proprietors of Language / Women as a Muted Group / A Visiting Scholar / Do We Really Want More Control of Technology? / Feminist Theories of Communication

3. Introduction to bell hooks

Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression / Feminist Politicization: A Comment / Back to the Avant-Garde: The Progressive Vision / Design: A Happening Life

4. Introduction to Gloria Anzaldua

Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers / La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness / Del otro lado / Beyond Traditional Notions of Identity

5. Introduction to Mary Daly

A Call for the Castration of Sexist Religion / Gyn/Ecology: Spinning New Time/Space / Sin Big / Spiraling into the Nineties

6. Introduction to Starhawk

Witchcraft as Goddess Religion / Truth or Dare / Ritual as Bonding: Action as Ritual / The Spiral Dance / Roundtable Discussion: Backlash

7. Introduction to Paula Gunn Allen

All the Good Indians / Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America / Some Like Indians Endure / Essentially, It's Spring / Haggles

8. Introduction to Trinh T. Minh-ha

Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference / Yellow Sprouts / The Totalizing Quest of Meaning

9. Introduction to Sally Miller Gearhart

The Womanization of Rhetoric / The Gatherstretch / The Chipko / Notes from a Recovering Activist

10. Introduction to Sonia Johnson

The Bursting of the File / Who's Afraid of the Supreme Court? / Ship Ahoy / Meet My Needs, Make Me Happy / The Bears and Anarchy