Feminist challenges or feminist rhetorics? : locations, scholarship, discourse / edited by Kirsti Cole.

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Papers from the International Conference on Feminisms and Rhetorics held at Minnesota State University, Mankato on October 12-15, 2011.

Discussion about the intersections of feminisms and rhetorics, the locations of feminist rhetorics, the various discourses that invoke "feminism" or "feminist," and the scholarship that provokes, challenges, and deliberates issues of key concern. The authors represented in this collection present potential consequences for communities in the academy and beyond, spanning international, geopolitical, racial, and religious contexts.--Adapted from cover page 4.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Challenges, Rhetorics, and Feminisms: Where We Speak, Where We Write, Where We Live / Kirsti K. Cole -- Catherine Livingston Garrettson and Integrated Male-Female Spheres in the Early American Republic / Heather Blain Vorhies -- Sites of Writing: Fanny Fern and the Space of Normativity in 19th Century Publishing / Jennifer Dorsey -- "Come Sit at the Table with Us": Traces of Racial History and Women's Agency in Place / Suellynn Duffey -- Making Space for Writing: High School Girls' Newspapers, Writing Clubs, and Literary Magazines 1897-1930 / Lori Ostegaard, Amy Macklenburg-Faenger, and Henrietta Rix Woods -- "Madness" as a Rhetorical Tool: Examining the Rhetorical Techniques of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, and Anne Sexton / Sarah B. Franco -- When Free Speech Courts Compassion: Civic Housekeeping and the Hope of Public Deliberation / William Duffy -- When Women Kill Newborns: The Rhetoric of Vulnerability / Susan Ayres -- Politics of Care and Affect at Camp Casey / Amy Pason -- Rhetoric of Riot: Creating Alternative Feminist Sites of Resistance / Rebekah Buchanan -- If not a Mother and not a Maid, Then What?: How Feminist Pedagogy / Fits (or Doesn't) in the 21st Century / Kristin Winet -- That's a Blonde Remark": Gendered Communication in the Workplace / Margaret Weaver -- Feminism and Zines: An Origin Story (And the Accidents that Reveal Them) / Alison Piepmeier -- Reworking Landscapes: Creating Identity in Body, Space, and Language / Janella D. Moy -- Echo as Ventriloquist: Disembodied Vocal Performance and Feminist Rhetorical Agency / Lydia McDermott -- Distributed (Un)Certainty: Folksonomy as a Feminist Enterprise / Aurora Matzke -- Recontextualizing Feminist Rhetoric: Exploring the Progression and Future of Feminist Rhetoric as a Field of Study / Jessica L. Furgerson -- Unveiling the Violence of Harmony: Challenging and Renewing the Politics of Intellectual Property Rights through (Dis)Harmony / Jennifer H. Maher and Catherine Fox -- Feminist Indigenous Rhetoric of Survivance and Discursive Spaces in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest / Kelly Sassi -- Survivance as Resistance to Authoritative Discourse: An American Indian Student Uses Her Words, Her Way / Rebecca Gardner -- Toward a Chicana Feminist Body Politic / Marissa M. Juarez -- The Cultural Rhetoric of the Sari / Moushumi Biswas.

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