Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions (Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich)

Ratcliffe, Krista

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“…Each field has its own particular agenda and trajectory of development. In the past three decades, moving away from a Eurocentric paradigm, comparatists have sought to identify and use indigenous terms and concepts to study non-Western traditions in their own historical and cultural contexts (e.g., Combs 2006;Garrett 1993;Lipson 2009;Lu 1998Lu , 2004Lyon 2008;Mao 2003Mao , 2007; meanwhile, feminist rhetoricians have employed rereading, recovery, and extrapolation to challenge the gender-biased assumptions about rhetoric embedded in canonical Western theories and recuperate women's contributions to rhetoric (e.g., Bordelon 2007;Campbell 1989;Enoch 2005Enoch , 2008Glenn 1997;Jarratt and Ong 1995;Logan 1999;Mattingly 1998;Mountford 2003;Ratcliffe 1996;Royster 2000;Swearingen 1991Swearingen , 1995. Except for a small number of recent articles that connect comparative rhetoric with feminist historiography, there have been few dialogues between the two fields (e.g., Swearingen 2004;Wang 2009Wang , 2010Wu 2005Wu , 2010.…”

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“…For discussions of methodological issues in feminist rhetoric and historiography, see Barbara Biesecker (1992), Patricia Bizzell (1992), Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (1993Campbell ( , 2002, Xin Liu Gale (2000), Cheryl Glenn (1997Glenn ( , 2000, Wendy Hesford and Eileen Schell (2008), Susan Jarratt (2000), Roxanne Mountford (1999Mountford ( , 2003, Krista Ratcliffe (1996Ratcliffe ( , 2005, Christine Sutherland (1999), C. Jan Swearingen (1991Swearingen ( , 1995, and Hui Wu (2002Wu ( , 2005. Downloaded by [Tulane University] at 08:41 03 January 2015 4.…”

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Rethinking Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography in a Global Context: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Wang

2012

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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Over the past three decades, feminist scholars have collectively produced a coherent and substantial body of research and established feminist rhetoric as a discipline. This article argues for linking feminist rhetoric with comparative rhetoric so as to open up conversations about theories, methodologies, and processes between the two fields. Examining a hybrid feminist discourse through early-twentieth-century Chinese women's texts, the author suggests that we rethink feminist rhetoric and historiography from a cross-cultural perspective and that Chinese women's rhetorical practices—negotiating cultural flux in contact zones—can be used as a model for current feminist scholarship. As the discipline moves toward a new dialogic paradigm, such a cross-cultural frame can help us examine our assumptions, reconsider our priorities, and discover and develop multiple local terms and concepts in reading texts across various historical periods and social, cultural, and geopolitical boundaries.

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Rethinking Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography in a Global Context: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Wang

2012

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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“…This function of metaphor is evident in Watson's address, which implies Watson's use of metaphor can engender real change for women. Ratcliffe (1996) adds that feminist writer Adrienne Rich stresses the importance of recognizing the imaginative function of language because "if a woman's material existence is to be transformed, her consciousness must be able to break through the rhetoric of patriarchy" (p. 114). Watson's use of metaphor to expose male oppression and illustrate men as victims of gender inequality is the means by which she "breaks through the rhetoric of patriarchy" so feminists can be heard in a primarily masculinist language (Ratcliffe, 1996, p. 114).…”

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“…This suggests Watson's "new" take on feminism is really the result of an evolution of feminism that is no more radical than the growth between, say, first and second-wave feminism. Ratcliffe (1996) states, "no space exists in which feminists may stand to begin totally anew…but because the dominant discourse is not static, it may be revised" (p. 5). This suggests that though Watson's theory cannot be entirely original, it has the potential to change the dominant discourse from a "masculinist" language, for lack of a better term, to at least a neutral one.…”

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“…In discussing the methodology of addressing various "feminist challenges to the rhetorical traditions," Krista Ratcliffe (1996) defines four steps that offer "tremendous potential for challenging our rhetorical traditions." These are (1) recovering lost or "marginalized theories of rhetoric" and (2) rereading or revising pre-existing interpretations of these theories, (3) extrapolating non-rhetorical texts such as diaries and essays by treating them as theories of rhetoric, (4) and finally conceptualizing new theories of rhetoric (p. 2-5).…”

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"Feminism" and Feminism: A Rhetorical Criticism of Emma Watson's Address to the U.N.

Batterson

2016

Quest

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This analysis uses metaphor criticism to decipher how metaphors function in Emma Watson's address to the UN. Metaphor criticism proves useful in this critique because it can be used to determine the rhetor's motive, to evaluate the effectiveness of the message, and to decipher the rhetor's perspective on a particular subject. This critique uncovers two types of metaphors: those that describe "gender stereotypes" and those that describe "feminism." The first subgroup of metaphors describes gender stereotypes as evil, oppressing entities that can be overcome or defeated. The second, more complex subgroup of metaphors for feminism suggests the term "feminism" has a negative connotation; one that conflicts with the true definition of the term. In addition, Watson's inconsistent use of the "fight" metaphor suggests she is hesitant to use "feminism" to describe gender equality. In attempt to make the feminist movement more inclusive of men, Watson resists using the term and instead replaces it with phrases such as "he for she." Watson's metaphors suggest she is an advocate for gender equality but that she recognizes the stigma behind the term "feminism" and thus she uses metaphors for "feminism" instead of using the term directly. Since her speech aims to galvanize men and boys for change, she may ultimately be trying to create a new label for gender equality that is inclusive of men.

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Making Emends: Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Anne Bradstreet

Rust¹

2016

American Literature

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This essay examines two versions of an essay by Adrienne Rich on Anne Bradstreet to argue that Rich's intervening relationship with Audre Lorde facilitated her development of a rhetorical technique I call additive emendation. This method allowed her to supplement the original essay so as to both comment on its errors and let them remain evident to the reader. Lorde's emphasis on knowledge as an ongoing phenomenon rather than a finite commodity, and her understanding of prose as a means to inscribe that process, informed this technique and became evident to Rich in a series of contentious print exchanges between them. As such, the three pairings in this essay—Rich and Bradstreet, Lorde and Rich, and Rich's later and earlier authorial personae—reflect the feminist phenomenon of the open letter, whereby anger, rather than critical dispassion, founds argumentative cogency.

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Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions (Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich)

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Rethinking Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography in a Global Context: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Rethinking Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography in a Global Context: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

"Feminism" and Feminism: A Rhetorical Criticism of Emma Watson's Address to the U.N.

Making Emends: Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Anne Bradstreet

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