Fractured Feminisms

Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation

Edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale & Gil Harootunian

Subjects: Feminist
Paperback : 9780791458020, 251 pages, August 2003
Hardcover : 9780791458013, 251 pages, August 2003

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Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

FRAMING FEMINISMS:
Investigating Histories, Theories, and Moments of Fracture
Laura Gray-Rosendale and Gil Harootunian

PART I: Theoretical, Generational, and Administrative Fractures within Rhetoric and Composition

1. MATERIALIST FEMINISM AND COMPOSITION STUDIES:
The Practice of Critique and Activism in an Age of Globalization
Eileen Schell

2. WHEN OUR FEMINISM IS NOT FEMINIST ENOUGH
Joanne Detore-Nakamura

3. DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATIONS/ADMINISTERING DIFFERENCE:
A New Model for Feminist Administrative Practices in Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Laura Gray-Rosendale

PART II: Fractured Feminisms in Writing across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines

4. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM WITH CARE, 000
Bradley Peters

5. WOMEN’S WAYS ADAPTED, ADJUSTED, LOST:
Feminist Theory Meets the Practices of Engineering Education
Linda S. Bergmann

6. THE OVERLY MANAGED STUDENT:
Gender and Pedagogy in the Science School
Rose Kamel

PART III: Fractured Feminisms in the Classroom

7. THE CHALLENGES OF ESTABLISHING A FEMINIST ETHOS IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM:
Stories from Large Research Universities
Shelly Whitfield, Veronica Pantoja, and Duane Roen

8. RIDING OUR HOBBYHORSE:
Ethics, Ethnography, and an Argument for the Teacher-Researcher
Gil Harootunian

9. CHALLENGES TO CYBERFEMINISM:
Voices, Contradictions, and Identity Constructions
Sibylle Gruber

PART IV: Fractured Feminisms across Cultures

10. FEMINISMS AND MEMORY:
Patriarchal Genealogy Translating and Translated in the Stories of Chinese/Chinese American Women
Stuart H. D. Ching

11. COMPOSING SELF:
An Intercultural Curriculum for First-Year College Composition
M. Diane Benton

12. LOOKING TO EAST AND WEST:
Feminist Practice in an Asian Classroom
Chng Huang Hoon and Chitra Sankaran

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Crucial conversations about feminist theories and how they can fall apart, rupture, and fragment.

Description

This advanced analysis of gender issues in higher education represents a significant new turn in feminist thinking. Fractured Feminisms resists and reshapes boundaries by investigating how gender studies' intersection with race and ethnicity, class, postcoloniality, sexuality, globalization, interdisciplinarity, technology studies, and administration exposes the "silenced other" of feminisms themselves. These crucial conversations about feminisms depend upon facing the perplexing rhetorical problems within feminist debates, yet work within these fractures to discover newly emerging, productive feminist practices. This book contends that it's important to better understand the ways in which feminist rhetorics both empower and constrain and the kinds of identities feminisms afford as well as deny.

Laura Gray-Rosendale is Associate Professor of English and Co-Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women at Northern Arizona University. She is the coeditor (with Sibylle Gruber) of Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition, also published by SUNY Press. Gil Harootunian is Professional Writing Instructor in the Syracuse University Writing Program. She is the editor of The Personal Narrative: Writing Ourselves as Teachers and Scholars.