Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies (Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition)

WALKING AND TALKING FEMINIST RHETORICS: LANDMARK ESSAYS AND CONTROVERSIES GATHERS significant, oft-cited scholarship about feminism and rhetoric into one convenient volume. Essays examine the formation of the vibrant and growing field of feminist rhetoric; feminist historiographic research methods and methodologies; and women's distinct sites, genres, and styles of rhetoric. The book's most innovative and pedagogically useful feature is its presentation of controversies in the form of case studies, each consisting of exchanges between or among scholars about significant questions. These debates have shaped the field's past and continue to influence its present and future directions. The collection provides both students and teachers with an accessible introduction to and comprehensive overview of the intersections of feminisms and rhetorics. In WALKING AND TALKING FEMINIST RHETORICS, Lindal Buchanan and Kathleen J. Ryan "have presented the field of feminist rhetorics . . . with an important and timely collection of primary scholarly work, the first collection of late twentieth and twenty-first century published scholarship in this field that they claim is here to stay. Feminist rhetorics, they assert, is 'no longer a promising possibility or a nascent area of study but has, in fact, arrived.' I agree with them, and I applaud their bold yet careful stance in framing this 'walk through' feminist rhetorics." - Kate Ronald, "Foreword" CONTRIBUTORS include Barbara Biesecker, Patricia Bizzell, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Vicki Tolar Collins (Burton), Celeste. M. Condit, Robert Connors, Jane Donawerth, Bonnie J. Dow, Lisa Ede, Jessica Enoch, Sonja K. Foss, Xin Liu Gale, Cheryl Glenn, Cindy. L. Griffin, Susan Jarratt, Nan Johnson, Shirley Wilson Logan, Andrea Lunsford, Carol Mattingly, Roxanne Mountford, Mary Queen, Krista Ratcliffe, Susan Romano, Mary B. Tonn, Hui Wu, and Susan Zaeske. LINDAL BUCHANAN is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Old Dominion University. KATHLEEN J. RYAN is Associate Professor of English and the Director of Composition at the University of Montana. LAUER SERIES IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay rhetoric, feminism Front cover 1 Series page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Contents 6 Chronological Subject Listing of Historiographic Essays 9 Foreword 10 Talking the Talk/Walking the Walk: The Path of Feminist Rhetorics 10 Kate Ronald 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 14 Walking and Talking through the Field of Feminist Rhetorics 14 Part 1. Charting the Emergence of Feminist Rhetorics 24 Introduction to Man Cannot Speak for Her 28 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell 28 Speaking to the Past: Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric 39 Susan C. Jarratt 39 sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric 56 Cheryl Glenn 56 Border Crossings: Intersections of Rhetoric and Feminism 74 Lisa Ede, Cheryl Glenn, and Andrea Lunsford1 74 Bathsheba’s Dilemma: Defining, Discovering, and Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetoric(s) 100 Krista Ratcliffe 100 Part 2. Articulating and Enacting Feminist Methods and Methodologies 128 Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference Do They Make? 132 Patricia Bizzell 132 The Historical Catalina Hernández: Inhabiting the Topoi of Feminist Historiography 144 Susan Romano 144 The Speaker Respoken: Material Rhetoric as Feminist Methodology 165 Vicki Tolar Collins (Burton) 165 Historical Studies of Rhetorical Women Here and There: Methodological Challenges to Dominant Interpretive Frameworks 189 Hui Wu 189 Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetorics of Sterilization Abuse 203 Jessica Enoch 203 Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in a Digital World 222 Mary Queen 222 Part 3. Exploring Gendered Sites, Genres, and Styles of Rhetoric 240 Conversation and the Boundaries of Public Discourse in Rhetorical Theory by Renaissance Women 244 Jane Donawerth 244 The “Promiscuous Audience” Controversy and the Emergence of the Early Woman’s Rights Movement 255 Susan Zaeske 255 Black Women on the Speaker’s Platform (1832–1899) 275 Shirley Wilson Logan 275 Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space in Postbellum America 295 Nan Johnson 295 Woman’s Temple, Women’s Fountains: The Erasure of Public Memory 312 Carol Mattingly 312 “Feminine Style” and Political Judgment in the Rhetoric of Ann Richards 334 Bonnie J. Dow and Mari Boor Tonn 334 Part 4. Examining Controversies: Four Case Studies 354 Case Study 1 356 Debating Disciplinary Directions: Recovery versus Retheorizing 356 Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric 358 Barbara Biesecker 358 Biesecker Cannot Speak for Her Either 376 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell 376 Case Study 2 381 Debating the Aims of Discourse: Persuasive versus Invitational Rhetoric 381 Samuel R. Evans 381 Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric 383 Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin 383 In Praise of Eloquent Diversity: Gender and Rhetoric as Public Persuasion 402 Celeste Michelle Condit 402 Case Study 3 419 Debating Causality: Women and the Demise of Rhetorical Education 419 Gender Influences: Composition-Rhetoric as an Irenic Rhetoric 421 Robert J. Connors 421 Feminization of Rhetoric? 453 Roxanne Mountford 453 Case Study 4 460 Debating Ethos: Traditional versus Feminist Research Methods 460 Barbara Hebert 460 Historical Studies and Postmodernism: Rereading Aspasia of Miletus 463 Xin Liu Gale 463 Comment: Truth, Lies, and Method: Revisiting Feminist Historiography 483 Cheryl Glenn 483 Comment: Rhetoric and Feminism: Together Again 486 Susan C. Jarratt 486 Selected Bibliography 490 Works Cited 494 Index 498 Selected Bibliography 490 Works Cited 494 Index 498 About the Editors 504 Back cover 505 feminism;,rhetoric;,writing feminism,rhetoric,writing Front cover......Page 1 Series page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 Copyright page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Chronological Subject Listing of Historiographic Essays......Page 9 Kate Ronald......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Walking and Talking through the Field of Feminist Rhetorics......Page 14 Part 1. Charting the Emergence of Feminist Rhetorics......Page 24 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell......Page 28 Susan C. Jarratt......Page 39 Cheryl Glenn......Page 56 Lisa Ede, Cheryl Glenn, and Andrea Lunsford1......Page 74 Krista Ratcliffe......Page 100 Part 2. Articulating and Enacting Feminist Methods and Methodologies......Page 128 Patricia Bizzell......Page 132 Susan Romano......Page 144 Vicki Tolar Collins (Burton)......Page 165 Hui Wu......Page 189 Jessica Enoch......Page 203 Mary Queen......Page 222 Part 3. Exploring Gendered Sites, Genres, and Styles of Rhetoric......Page 240 Jane Donawerth......Page 244 Susan Zaeske......Page 255 Shirley Wilson Logan......Page 275 Nan Johnson......Page 295 Carol Mattingly......Page 312 Bonnie J. Dow and Mari Boor Tonn......Page 334 Part 4. Examining Controversies: Four Case Studies......Page 354 Debating Disciplinary Directions: Recovery versus Retheorizing......Page 356 Barbara Biesecker......Page 358 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell......Page 376 Samuel R. Evans......Page 381 Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin......Page 383 Celeste Michelle Condit......Page 402 Debating Causality: Women and the Demise of Rhetorical Education......Page 419 Robert J. Connors......Page 421 Roxanne Mountford......Page 453 Barbara Hebert......Page 460 Xin Liu Gale......Page 463 Cheryl Glenn......Page 483 Susan C. Jarratt......Page 486 Selected Bibliography......Page 490 Works Cited......Page 494 Index......Page 498 About the Editors......Page 504 Back cover......Page 505