I loved The Blind Assassin. I saw that Radical Readers and Feminisms For Dummies was reading it this month, and I thought to myself: That title sounds really familiar… I went to look at the bookshelves in my closet and, lo and behold, there it was among my mom’s books! Just waiting to be read! [...]
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Tag Archives: Rhetoric
Literacy AND Rhetoric in the Feminist Blogging Community!
This is part of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
I’m reading Kenneth Burke’s idea of Dramatism correctly, it seems he is subscribing to Shakespeare’s idea that [...]
End the R-Word
Last week in my Theory of Rhetoric class, I left very upset over an argument that ensued over the use of the word “retarded.” It was brought up in one of my classmates’ responses inspired by Rahm Emanuel’s recent comments. One of my other classmates actually said, upon hearing all of this: “You know, I [...]
The Rhetoric of Hate
This is part of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
This week, a particular passage about passions from Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres really struck [...]
Research and Credibility in Rhetoric
This is part of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
To be totally honest, I did not find this week’s readings as fascinating as last week’s. I think [...]
Feminist Bloggers and Discourse Communities
This is the beginning of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
This week’s reading was an excellent introduction to rhetoric. I found the definitions of terms and, particularly, [...]
Teaching Feminism and Body Image: What is Dove Really Selling?
Yesterday, during a lesson on persuasive rhetorical techniques, I showed my students a number of commercials, asking them whether the technique used was Logos, Ethos, or Pathos. Along with this, I asked them what the ad was trying to sell, what it claimed about the product, if there was any bias present, etc. A friend [...]
