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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…
Read moreMountford, 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 moreCoole 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)….
Read moreMy Story I was five years old when I discovered my dad’s stash of pornography in the laundry bin in my parent’s bathroom. It was my fault. I was implicitly told I was not allowed to use the bathroom in my parent’s bedroom. I disobeyed. But I had no idea of the horror stacked…
Read moreWhat I have described as essential to an ambient rhetoric—its embodied and embedded or situated character, its dispersal across things that themselves have gradations of agency, and its dynamic emergence within an environment that occasions certain effects—suggests that intent is only one element in a large array of things, feelings, peoples, and forces all complexly…
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Cacciatore Portfolio Research Guide
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I found the cluster analysis exercise quite enlightening. My secondary academic field is psychology. I chose this because both my secondary areas of body image and quiet activism fall within this academic field. The top ten words that appeared in my WordCloud were: 1. Psychology / Psychological – 308 2. Cultural / Culture – 303…
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Bratich, Jack Z., and Heidi M. Brush. “Fabricating Activism: Craft- Work, Popular Culture, Gender.” Utopian Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2011, p. 233., doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.22.2.0233. Corbett, Sarah. “Activism needs introverts.” TED Talk, November, 2016, https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_corbett_activism_needs_introverts “Craftivism.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Sept. 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craftivism. Hanson, et al. “Marathon Statistics 2019 Worldwide Average Finishing Times.” RunnerClick, Dec. 2018, https://runnerclick.com/marathon-finishing-times-study-and-statistics/. “Humans of New…
Read moreScholar, Judith Butler (2006), discusses hegemonic femininity stating, “gender is a performance with clearly punitive consequences” (Butler, 139). Butler believes that society has cultural guidelines for how genders should perform and when they do not conform to their gender normative role, they are punished through negative social sanction. A study was conducted on hegemonic feminity…
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