EDITED BY MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE Fo od, Feminism s, rhetorics A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric Edited by Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones Rethinking Ethos Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms addresses the interdisciplinarity that rhetorics and feminisms represent. Rhetorical and feminist schol- ars want to connect rhetorical inquiry with contemporary academic and social concerns, exploring rhetoric’s relevance to current issues of opportunity and diversity. This interdisciplinarity has already begun to transform the rhetorical tradition as we have known it (upper-class, antagonistic, public, spoken, and always masculinist) into regendered, inclusionary rhetorics (democratic, dialogic, collaborative, private, and sometimes unspoken). Our cultural, political, and intellectual advance- ments depend on such a balance. The series editors seek both high-quality traditional and cutting-edge scholarly work that extends the significant relationship between rhetoric and feminism within various genres, cultural contexts, historical peri- ods, methodologies, theoretical positions, and methods of delivery (e.g., film and hypertext to elocution and preaching). Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms A Series from Southern Illinois University Press See the reverse side for a list of titles in this series. Go to www.siupress.com/srf to find detailed descriptions of each title and information about course adoption, and to order. Professor Cheryl Glenn, Editor E-mail: [email protected]Professor Shirley Wilson Logan, Editor E-mail: [email protected]Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms English Department 402 Burrowes Building Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 QUERIES & SUBMISSIONS facebook.com/siupress twitter.com/siupress Phone orders and inquiries: 800-621-2736 Online orders: www.siupress.com/srf Go to www.siupress.com to sign up to receive notifications of new books or promotions in your subject areas of interest. Use promo code FEMRHET to receive a 30% discount off books in the series!
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E D I T E D B YM E L I S S A A . G O L DT H WA I T E
Food,Feminisms,
rhetorics
A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric
Edited by Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones
Rethinking Ethos
Rethinking Ethos
A Fem
inist Ecological A
pproach to Rhetoric
Ryan, Myers,
and Jones
“This important collection contributes to new theories of ethos as a fluid, negotiated, place-based concept, illustrating how ethos can and does shift according to the rhetors involved, the exigency, and the time, place, and occasion of speaking or writing. Con-tributors to the volume include a range of established and emerging scholars who together present important new theories and case studies of feminist ethos.”
—Gesa Kirsch, coauthor of Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies
“Rethinking Ethos enacts its theoretical foundation brilliantly and seamlessly: this col-lection interrupts stale and static notions of what constitutes ethos, it advocates for a capacious yet rigorous definition of feminist ethē, and it relates not only to our schol-arship but also to our teaching, professional, and personal lives.”
—Kate J. Ronald, Miami University
Labels traditionally ascribed to women—mother, angel of the house, whore, and bitch—suggest character traits that do not encompass the complexities of women’s identities or empower women’s public speaking. Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric redefines the concept of ethos—classically thought of as character or credibility—as ecological and feminist, negotiated and renegotiated, and implicated in shifting power dynamics.
With its rich mix of historical examples and contemporary case studies, Rethinking Ethos offers a range of new perspectives, including queer theory, transnational ap-proaches, radical feminism, Chicana feminism, and indigenous points of view, from which to consider a feminist approach to ethos.
Kathleen J. Ryan is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the coor-dinator of the writing major at Montana State University. She is a coeditor of Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies and a coauthor of GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century.
Nancy Myers is an associate professor of English and the director of college writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a coeditor of The Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook, fourth edition.
Rebecca Jones is a UC Foundation associate professor in the English department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her coauthored article “Counter-Coulter: A Story of Craft and Ethos,” originally published in Writing on the Edge, is featured in Parlor Press’s The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2013.
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Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms addresses the interdisciplinarity
that rhetorics and feminisms represent. Rhetorical and feminist schol-
ars want to connect rhetorical inquiry with contemporary academic
and social concerns, exploring rhetoric’s relevance to current issues of
opportunity and diversity. This interdisciplinarity has already begun
to transform the rhetorical tradition as we have known it (upper-class,
antagonistic, public, spoken, and always masculinist) into regendered,
inclusionary rhetorics (democratic, dialogic, collaborative, private, and
sometimes unspoken). Our cultural, political, and intellectual advance-
ments depend on such a balance.
The series editors seek both high-quality traditional and cutting-edge
scholarly work that extends the significant relationship between rhetoric
and feminism within various genres, cultural contexts, historical peri-
ods, methodologies, theoretical positions, and methods of delivery (e.g.,
film and hypertext to elocution and preaching).
Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsA Series from Southern Illinois University Press
See the reverse side for a list of titles in this series.
Go to www.siupress.com/srf to find detailed descriptions of each title and information about course adoption, and to order.
