Standing in the Intersection : Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies

by Chavez, Karma R.; Griffin, Cindy L.; Houston, Marsha

• ISBN13: 9781438444895
• ISBN10: 1438444893
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.

Author Biography

Building on the decades of work by women of color and allied feminists, Standing in the Intersection is the first book in more than a decade to bring communication studies and feminist intersectional theories in conversation with one another. The authors in this collection take up important conversations relating to notions of style, space, and audience, and engage with the rhetoric of significant figures, including Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Jordan, Emma Goldman, and Audre Lorde, as well as crucial contemporary issues such as campus activism and political asylum. In doing so, they ask us to complicate notions of space, location, and movement; to be aware of and explicit with regard to our theorizing of intersecting and contradictory identities; and to think about the impact of multiple dimensions of power in understanding audiences and audiencing, Karma R. Chavez is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cindy L. Griffin is Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. She is the author of the Invitation to Public Speaking, Fourth Edition and the coeditor (with Karen A. Foss and Sonja K. Foss) of Feminist Rhetorical Theories.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword: Difficult Dialogues: Intersectionality as Lived Experience	p. ix
Introduction: Standing at the Intersections of Feminisms, intersectionality, and Communication Studies	p. 1
Entering the Intersection
Mammies and Matriarchs: Feminine Style and Signifyin(g) in Carol Moseley Braun's 2003-2004 Campaign for the Presidency	p. 35
The Intersectional Style of Free Love Rhetoric	p. 59
(Im)mobile Metaphors: Toward an Intersectional Rhetorical History	p. 78
Placing Sex/Gender at the Forefront: Feminisms, Intersectionality, and Communication Studies	p. 97
Audiences and Audlenclng
Intersecting Audiences: Public Commentary Concerning Audre Lorde's Speech, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"	p. 125
Constitutive Intersectionality and the Affect of Rhetorical Form	p. 147
Spheres of Influence: The Intersections of Feminism and Iransnationalism in Betty Millard's Woman Against Myth	p. 169
Essentialism, Intersectionality and Recognition: A Feminist Rhetorical Approach to the Audience	p. 189
Contributors	p. 211
Index	p. 215
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