Material Feminisms – Dr. Stacy Cacciatore

Barr, Liz. “Feminism, Epistemic Authority, and Biomedical Activism

March 11, 2020

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…

Jack, Jordynn. “How Good Brain Science Gets That Way: Reclaiming the Scientific Study of Sexed and Gendered Brains

March 11, 2020

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…

Sonia, Kruks. “Simone De Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms.” New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics

March 11, 2020

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…

DISABILITY EXPERIENCE ON TRIAL

March 8, 2020

Stacy Alaimo & Susan Hekman. Material Feminisms . Indiana University Press. Kindle Edition. Siebers (2008) discusses disability discrimination and the difficulty in overcoming these prejudices because our society is “discrimination by design”. Siebers quotes Jean-François Lyotard’s (1988) definition of différend “as a situation in which victims are denied the means to demonstrate that they have…

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Buchanan, Lindal. Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors.

March 8, 2020

Buchanan, Lindal. Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Buchanan calls scholars to action to contribute research into the rhetorical constraints of marginalized groups. In the article, Buchanan specifically calls for scholars to look beyond what has traditionally counted as evidence in scholarly inquiry. Buchanan herself contributes a…

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Mountford, Roxanne. The Gendered Pulpit

March 8, 2020

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…

New Materialisms – Coole and Frost Recap

February 26, 2020

Coole and Frost (2010) make a distinction between old and new materiality by stating “We discern as an overriding characteristic of the new materialists their insistence on describing active processes of materialization of which embodied humans are an integral part, rather than the monotonous repetitions of dead matter from which human subjects are apart (8)….

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