Anglo-American Feminist Challenges To The Rhetorical Traditions
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In this lucid and innovative work, Krista Ratcliffe successfully extrapolates rhetorical theories from three feminist writers not generally thought of as rhetoricians. Ratcliffe's skillful use of her methodology demonstrates a new model for examining women's texts. Her work situates Woolf's, Daly's, and Rich's feminist theories of rhetoric within current conversations about feminist pedagogies, particularly the interweavings of critical thinking, reading, and writing. Ratcliffe concludes with an application to teaching.
ISBN
0809319349
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
City
Carbondale, Il
Keywords
Rhetoric, Feminism, Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich, Feminist Literature, Literary Criticism
Disciplines
Literature in English, North America | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Rhetoric | Rhetoric and Composition
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Bathsheba's Dilemma: Defining, Discovering, and Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetoric(s)
Defining Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetoric(s)
Discovering Sex and Gender Gaps in the Rhetorical Traditions
Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetoric(s): Woolf, Daly, and Rich
2. Minting the Fourth Guinea: Virginia Woolf
Locating Virginia Woolf as a Rhetorical Theorist
Show Level Woolf's Rhetorical Concepts
Inconclusive Musings
3. De/Mystifying HerSelf and HerWor(l)ds: Mary Daly
Locating Mary Daly as a Rhetorical Theorist
A Rhetoric of Patriarchal Mystification
Show Level A Rhetoric of Radical Feminist De/Mystification
Inconclusive Musings
4. Re-Visioning the Borderlands: Adrienne Rich
Locating Adrienne Rich as a Rhetorical Theorist
The Dream of a Common Language, or the (Im)Possibilities of Women's Silences
A Politics of Location, or the (Im) Possibilities of Women Reading and Writing, Speaking and Listening
Inconclusive Musings
5. Educating Bathsheba and Everyone Else: Quest(ion)ing Pedagogical Possibilities of Anglo-American Feminist Theories Rhetoric(s)
Defining Patriarchal Pedagogies, or the Gender blindness of Mastering Mastery
Defining Feminist Pedagogies, or Treating the Ills of Patriarchal Education
Pedagogical Possibilities of Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetoric, or What's Feminism Got to...
Inconclusive Musings, or Is Walter Ong Asking the Right Question?
Notes
1. Bathsheba's Dilemma
2. Minting the Fourth Guinea
3. De/Mystifying HerSelf and HerWor(l)ds
4. Re-Visioning the Borderlands
5. Educating Bathsheba and Everyone Else
Works Cited
Index
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