Feminist Rhetorical Resilience

Contents

co ntents Introduction Feminist Rhetorical Resilience—Possibilities and Impossibilities 1 Elizabeth A. Flynn, Patricia Sotirin, and Ann Brady 1 Vandana Shiva and the Rhetorics of Biodiversity: Engaging Difference and Transnational Feminist Solidarities in a Globalized World 30 Eileen E. Schell Response On the Politics of Writing Transnational Rhetoric: Possibilities and Pitfalls 54 Arabella Lyon and Banu Özel Reflection 57 Eileen E. Schell 2 The Traveling Fado 59 Kate Vieira Response Traveling Literacies 82 Janet Carey Eldred Reflection 89 Kate Vieira 3 Virginity and Hymen Reconstructions: Rural, Migrant Women as Agents of Literate Practices in Turkey 91 Iklim Goksel Response Problematizing Literacy 110 Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater Reflection 113 Iklim Goksel 4 Diversity and the Flexible Subject in the Language of Spousal/ Partner Hiring Policies 116 Amy Koerber Response Expanding the Sites of Struggle over the “Flexible Subject” in Academe 139 Shirley K Rose Reflection 142 Amy Koerber 5 A Case Study in Resilience: Fabricating a Feminine Self in a Man-Made Era 144 Frances J. Ranney Response Philanthropy as Interpretation, Not Charity: Jane Addams’s Civic Housekeeping as Another Response to the Progressive Era 174 Kate Ronald Reflection 178 Frances J. Ranney 6 From “Mothers of the Nation” to “Mothers of the Race”: Nineteenth-Century Feminists and Eugenic Rhetoric 181 Wendy Hayden Response Strategic Collusion in the History of American Women Rhetors 205 Nan Johnson Reflection 209 Wendy Hayden 7 No One Wants to Go There: Resilience, Denial, and Possibilities for Queering the Writing Classroom 211 Jennifer DiGrazia and Lauren Rosenberg Response On Impossibility 241 Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander Reflection 247 Jennifer DiGrazia and Lauren Rosenberg About the Authors 250 Index 254 ...