Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
A Series from Southern Illinois University Press
Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan, Series Editors
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms seeks to address the interdisciplinarity that rhetorics and feminisms represent. Rhetorical and feminist scholars want to connect rhetorical inquiry with contemporary academic and social concerns, exploring rhetoric's relevance to current issues of opportunity and diversity. This interdisciplinarity has already begun to transform the rhetorical tradition as we have known it (upper-class, agonistic, public, spoken, and always male) into regendered, inclusionary rhetorics (democratic, dialogic, collaborative, private, and sometimes unspoken). Our cultural, political, and intellectual advancements depend on such a balance.
Rhetoric always inscribes the relation of language and power at a particular moment, indicating who may speak (or who may or must remain silent), who may listen (or who is listened to), and what can be said (or must remain unspoken). The most troubling variable of any rhetorical equation might be who will be listened to. We live in a world of spectacularly rich and diverse rhetorical display, yet our field remains distressingly impoverished because those most listened to (recorded, written about, and discussed) are still the powerful, the recognized, the readily accessible. Thus in many ways, despite our academic efforts, we're still living in a rhetorically sequestered world. For this reason, we need to expand the rhetoric of power and persuasion with rhetorics that do something else, that are perhaps better suited to our present needs. We must understand more fully the full range of rhetorics, especially those representing members of traditionally subordinated groups: women, members of a wide range of cultural and racial-ethnic groups, practitioners of nontraditional rhetorical arts (silence and listening, for example), and many others. Therefore, Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms espouses a theoretical position of openness and expansion, a place for rhetorics to grow and thrive in a symbiotic relationship with all that feminisms have to offer, particularly when these two fields intersect with philosophical, sociological, religious, psychological, pedagogical, and literary issues.
The series editors seek both high-quality traditional and cutting-edge scholarly work that extends the significant relationship between rhetoric and feminism within various genres, cultural contexts, historical periods, methodologies, theoretical positions, and methods of delivery (e.g., film and hypertext to elocution and preaching).
Available in the Series
Bordelon, Suzanne. A Feminist Legacy: Gertrude Buck’s Democratic
Theory of Rhetoric and Pedagogy.
Buchanan, Lindal. Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum
Women Rhetors.
Flynn, Elizabeth. Feminism beyond Modernism.
Hollis, Karyn L. Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer
School for Women Workers.
Johnson, Nan. Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1886-1910.
Mattingly, Carol. Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America.
Mountford, Roxanne. The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching, Rhetorical Space,
and American Protestant Culture.
Ratcliffe, Krista. Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness.
Sharer, Wendy. Vote and Voice: Women’s Organizations and Political
Literacy, 1915-1930.
Queries and submissions:
Cheryl Glenn, series editor
E-mail: cjg6@psu.edu
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Department of English
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Penn State University
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Shirley Wilson Logan, series editor
E-mail: slogan@umd.edu
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Department of English
3101 Susquehanna Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-8815
