Fractured Feminisms : Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation

by Gray-Rosendale, Laura; Harootunian, Gil

• ISBN13: 9780791458013
• ISBN10: 0791458016
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Crucial conversations about feminist theories and how they can fall apart, rupture, and fragment. This advanced analysis of gender issues in higher education represents a significant new turn in feminist thinking. Fractured Feminisms resists and reshapes boundaries by investigating how gender studies intersection with race and ethnicity, class, postcoloniality, sexuality, globalization, interdisciplinarity, technology studies, and administration exposes the "silenced other" of feminisms themselves. These crucial conversations about feminisms depend upon facing the perplexing rhetorical problems within feminist debates, yet work within these fractures to discover newly emerging, productive feminist practices. This book contends that it's important to better understand the ways in which feminist rhetorics both empower and constrain and the kinds of identities feminisms afford as well as deny.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,	xi
INTRODUCTION FRAMING FEMINISMS: Investigating Histories, Theories, and Moments of Fracture,	1	(30)
Laura Gray-Rosendale and Gil Harootunian
PART I Theoretical, Generational, and Administrative Fractures within Rhetoric and Composition
CHAPTER ONE MATERIALIST FEMINISM AND COMPOSITION STUDIES: The Practice of Critique and Activism in an Age of Globalization,	31	(14)
Eileen Schell
CHAPTER TWO WHEN OUR FEMINISM IS NOT FEMINIST ENOUGH,	45	(20)
Joanne Detore-Nakamura
CHAPTER THREE DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATIONS/ADMINISTERING DIFFERENCE: A New Model for Feminist Administrative Practices in Rhetoric and Composition Studies,	65	(24)
Laura Gray-Rosendale
PART II Fractured Feminisms in Writing across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines
CHAPTER FOUR WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM WITH CARE,	89	(14)
Bradley Peters
CHAPTER FIVE WOMEN'S WAYS ADAPTED, ADJUSTED, LOST: Feminist Theory Meets the Practices of Engineering Education,	103	(14)
Linda S. Bergmann
CHAPTER SIX THE OVERLY MANAGED STUDENT: Gender and Pedagogy in the Science School,	117	(14)
Rose Kamel
PART III Fractured Feminisms in the Classroom
CHAPTER SEVEN THE CHALLENGES OF ESTABLISHING A FEMINIST ETHOS IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM: Stories from Large Research Universities,	131	(12)
Shelly Whitfield, Veronica Pantoja, and Duane Roen
CHAPTER EIGHT RIDING OUR HOBBYHORSE: Ethics, Ethnography, and an Argument for the Teacher-Researcher,	143	(16)
Gil Harootunian
CHAPTER NINE CHALLENGES TO CYBERFEMINISM: Voices, Contradictions, and Identity Constructions,	159	(20)
Sibylle Gruber
PART IV Fractured Feminisms Across Cultures
CHAPTER TEN FEMINISMS AND MEMORY: Patriarchal Genealogy Translating and Translated in the Stories of Chinese/Chinese American Women,	179	(16)
Stuart H.D. Ching
CHAPTER ELEVEN COMPOSING SELF: An Intercultural Curriculum for First Year College Composition,	195	(20)
M. Diane Benton
CHAPTER TWELVE LOOKING TO EAST AND WEST: Feminist Practice in an Asian Classroom,	215	(16)
Chng Huang Hoon and Chitra Sankaran
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS,	231	(6)
INDEX,	237