Rhetorica in Motion

by Schell, Eileen E.; Rawson, K. J.; Ronald, Karen P.

• ISBN13: 9780822960560
• ISBN10: 0822960567
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

Rhetorica in Motionis 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 Motionincorporates 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.

Author Biography

Eileen E. Schell is associate professor of writing and director of the writing program at Syracuse University. She is the author of Gypsy Academics and Mother-teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction, coauthor of Rural Literacies, and coeditor of Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education.

K. J. Rawson is a Ph.D. candidate in the composition and cultural rhetoric program at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Researching Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies	p. 1
Theoretical and methodological challenges
Refiguring Rhetorica: Linking Feminist Rhetoric and Disability Studies	p. 23
Queering Feminist Rhetorical Canonization	p. 39
Cosmopolitanism and the Geopolitics of Feminist Rhetoric	p. 53
Growing Routes: Rhetoric as the Study and Practice of Movement	p. 71
Reflective applications
Making Pathways: Inventing Textual Research Methods in Feminist Rhetorical Studies	p. 89
Rhetorics of Possibility: Challenging Textual Bias through the Theory of the Flesh	p. 104
Mining the Collective Unconscious: With Responses from Ruth Ray and Gwen Gorzelsky	p. 118
Researching Literacy as a Lived Experience	p. 136
Rhetorica Online: Feminist Research Practices in Cyberspace	p. 152
Pedagogical postscript
Writing as Feminist Rhetorical Theory	p. 173
Notes	p. 189
References	p. 199
List of Contributors	p. 221
Index	p. 225
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