Feminist Studies Research Guide
Barr, Liz. “Feminism, Epistemic Authority, and Biomedical Activism
Barr, Liz. “Feminism, Epistemic Authority, and Biomedical Activism.” Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds, Southern Illinois University Press, 2018, pp. 205–226. Barr coins the term “embodied vernacularity” which “accounts for the speaking body in addition to the spoken word” (206). The scholarly conversation in which Barr is contributing is a body of research on … [Read more…]
Jack, Jordynn. “How Good Brain Science Gets That Way: Reclaiming the Scientific Study of Sexed and Gendered Brains
Jack, Jordynn. “How Good Brain Science Gets That Way: Reclaiming the Scientific Study of Sexed and Gendered Brains.” Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds, Southern Illinois University Press, 2018, pp. 164–182. Jordynn Jack calls for feminist rhetoricians to look beyond the results of scientific research to better understand how the conclusions were reached. She … [Read more…]
Sonia, Kruks. “Simone De Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms.” New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Sonia, Kruks. “Simone De Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms.” New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Duke University Press, 2010, pp. 258–280. The larger theoretical trend that Kruks draws our attention to is Simone de Beauvoir working in and across both phenomenology and a Marxist-inflected culturally oriented structuralist materialism. While Beauvoir is often read as phenomenology, she … [Read more…]
Mountford, Roxanne. The Gendered Pulpit
Mountford, Roxanne. The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. Print. Mountford addresses the gap in the scholarly conversation of rhetorical space by purporting that the pulpit is a masculine rhetorical space and this is problematic for women. She seamlessly brings together disparate forms of research on “rhetorical space” (as defined … [Read more…]
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