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Making The Political Personal: Consciousness Raising For The Contemporary Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, Danica Fuerst
Making The Political Personal: Consciousness Raising For The Contemporary Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, Danica Fuerst
Honors College Theses
Consciousness raising (CR) typically refers to the specific small group practice pioneered by second-wave feminists, but as networked media gradually replaced the small group process, new forms that are descended from the original CR emerged. This thesis traces consciousness raising from it's origins in the late 1960s and early '70s, through third-wave feminism, to contemporary feminist uses. It analyzes the rhetorical effects and functions of CR from the perspective of Symbolic Convergence theory, considering the various media through which CR is practiced. Finally, using the understanding of CR and its functions that this provides, it analyzes how one specific contemporary …
Inventing A Space To Speak: Ethos, Agency And United States’ Woman Suffrage Cookbooks (1886-1916), Danielle Nielsen
Inventing A Space To Speak: Ethos, Agency And United States’ Woman Suffrage Cookbooks (1886-1916), Danielle Nielsen
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
During the last forty years of the United States’ fight for woman suffrage, a handful of suffragists wrote cookbooks sponsored by suffrage organisations. These cookbooks created a rhetorical space and ethos within and through the kitchen. Because their activism was grounded in expected feminine actions, this home-bound ethos allowed the primarily white, middle-class suffragists to simultaneously advocate for women’s suffrage in public and maintain their adherence to the Cult of True Womanhood. The arguments put forth in the cookbooks illustrate an ethos that is influenced by both personal agency and the rhetor’s gendered, physical location in the kitchen. From this …
Incel Rhetoric: Origins Of Digital Misogyny, Virginia Sisemore
Incel Rhetoric: Origins Of Digital Misogyny, Virginia Sisemore
Honors College Theses
In this paper I outline the basic ideological beliefs of incels, which provide insight into the community’s violent tendencies. In addition, because I believe incel communities are more directly to blame for digital misogyny than a larger and more broad group of men, I examine posts from within their community and comments under Anita Sarkeesian’s video “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games” in order to demonstrate that the rhetoric in both online locations is from the same source. Finally, I discuss actions that can be taken to mitigate the online violence perpetrated by the incel community, which will, in turn, …
Epideictic Rhetoric And British Citizenship Practices Remembering British Heroes From The 1857 Indian Uprising At Civic Celebrations, Danielle Nielsen
Epideictic Rhetoric And British Citizenship Practices Remembering British Heroes From The 1857 Indian Uprising At Civic Celebrations, Danielle Nielsen
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
Epideixis is generally understood as ceremonial rhetoric that praises or blames. When examined through the lens of civic celebrations such as the Coronation Durbars in fin de siècle colonial India or the protection of Confederate monuments, epideictic rhetoric instructs the audience to uphold what are purported to be the community’s common values.This educational epideixis, however, also exposes veiled anxieties not commonly associated with a seemingly ceremonial speech act. This new understanding of epideictic should encourage rhetoricians to further question rhetors’ use of epideixis and interrogate other aims in those speech acts.
She Dreams In Burkean Color (Or, On Rhetoric And Writing Pedagogy), Paul Walker
She Dreams In Burkean Color (Or, On Rhetoric And Writing Pedagogy), Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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A Rhythmic Refrain: Britain's Mass Observation As Rhetorical Assemblage, Paul Walker
A Rhythmic Refrain: Britain's Mass Observation As Rhetorical Assemblage, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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Yes/No Means No/Yes: (Non)Consensual Rhetoric, Paul Walker, Joshua Adair
Yes/No Means No/Yes: (Non)Consensual Rhetoric, Paul Walker, Joshua Adair
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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Yes/No Means No/Yes: (Non) Consensual Rhetoric, Paul Walker
Yes/No Means No/Yes: (Non) Consensual Rhetoric, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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Charles Abrams Vs. Robert Moses: Contested Rhetorics Of Urban Housing, Paul Walker
Charles Abrams Vs. Robert Moses: Contested Rhetorics Of Urban Housing, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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(Un)Earthing A Vocabulary Of Values, Paul Walker
(Un)Earthing A Vocabulary Of Values, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.