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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Feminist Rhetoric"”.
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Exploring methodologies in feminist rhetoric and education: using Kirsch and Royster's terms of engagement in the college classroom
… Jacqueline Royster and Gesa Kirsch in their book Feminist Rhetorical Practices can be used to teach Feminist Rhetorical reading at the college level. In order to test and demonstrate the use of the methodology, a study was conducted in which students learned and applied Kirsch and Royster's …
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s "art as a mode of research": Applications in feminist research methods and feminist rhetoric
… inform social-justice efforts, contribute to feminist research in feminist rhetoric, and operate as a tool to analyze her sketches. Despite Anzaldúa’s visual art training and prevalent use of images in her writing, few scholars have analyzed her artwork or her writings on creativity. Drawing …
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Women and subjugation: An evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa
This study is an examination of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by African women fiction writers namely The Official Wife by Mary Karooro Okurut, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Screaming of the Innocent by Unity Dow, Parched Earth by Elieshi Lema and Meekulu’s Children by …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
Countering traditional claims that the feminist movement all but vanished during the early nineteenth century, this thesis suggests feminism remained prominent in both the literature and rhetoric of the time. In tracing the development of the "New Rhetoric," a rhetorical movement that aimed to …
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But Rather Becomes
… contemporary patriarchal American culture. Feminist rhetoric appears with some frequency in an attempt to spark academic contemplation. Each story (with the exception of the closing essay) puts a female protagonist in a position of agency against her respective exterior and interior …
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Birds with Wolf Hearts, a Collection of Poetry, with an Analysis of Contemporary Nepalese Women’s Poetry
… which balance is redressed. As a contribution to feminist rhetoric as well as poetry, the creative element of the thesis contains a collection of poems set in Nepal which respond to the traditions and tropes utilised in the poetry by Nepali women. Though they are written from my Western …
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The Feminine Mistake: Burkean Frames in Phyllis Schlafly's Equal Rights Amendment Speeches
… exists a body of literature that analyzes the rhetorical functions of pro- and anti- Equal Rights Amendment messages in relation to communication studies. Although limited in scope, this literature acknowledges the tremendous impact of Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA campaign in the prevention of …
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ON WOMEN AND RUNNING: A FEMINIST RHETORICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE POLITICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING VIA THE SHARING OF WOMEN'S RUNNING STORIES
… stories by focusing on the intersections of feminist rhetoric, women in sports studies, political theory, and ontology. To this end, I examined six books written by women, about women, who participate in the sport of running. Since I am most interested in how gendered concepts teach us how to …
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The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century
Margaret Sanger's rhetoric in the US birth control movement demonstrates the social forces that act upon rhetors and women's bodies, conforming both to established gender norms even as they attempt to violate those standards. This project studies Sanger's birth control rhetoric to understand how …
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Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
This thesis explores the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis. Staging a conversation between Davis, Michel Foucault, and Audre Lorde, I question how Davis navigates the rhetorical quagmire of writing an explicitly political autobiography while avoiding the interpellation of …
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These Things Will Change: Public Revision as a Feminist Rhetorical Strategy in Taylor Swift's Re-Recorded Albums
… craft of writing. Using discourse analysis and rhetorical accretion methods to understand Taylor Swift’s re-recorded albums as instances of revision, this dissertation theorizes public revision as a feminist rhetorical strategy that exists at the intersection of feminist rhetorics, public …
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Mobilizing Affect: The Rhetoric and Circulation of Popular Political Satire News Shows
… current moment?</p> <p>Drawing from classical rhetorical theory, feminist and queer affect studies, and rhetorical circulation studies, I analyze three popular political satire shows: Saturday Night Live, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. All of these shows …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… focuses on specific discourses within the rhetoric of the "obesity crisis" that position the fat body as a threat to U.S. military power and national identity. Since 9/11, there has been a growing rhetoric that frames obesity as a threat to national security that is weakening U.S. military …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
… women’s discourse and literacy practices in rhetorical analyses of online posts, surveys, and qualitative interviews of Black women who use the sites studied. Each case works to explain how Black women’s offline discourse and literacy practices are used on social media, what kinds of …
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The Divine Double Voice: How Female Christian Rhetors Found Rhetorical Agency through the Voice of God
… beliefs and messages, and utilized a variety of rhetorical maneuvers in order to share their messages and quietly subvert patriarchal constructs within the church. These women found agency for their feminist messages within their Christian patriarchal constructs, and they set precedents for …
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Storied trauma: the violent chronotopic laminations of queer survivor narratives
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Framing the Future: Women's Media and Activism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Texas
… for major urban newspapers, these women employed rhetorical strategies comparable to those of national suffrage and temperance movements, amplifying collective action while working within the constraints of a patriarchal Old South culture. Drawing on discourse analysis and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell’s …