Feminist Rhetorical Resilience - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874218780 ISBN 13: 9780874218787

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of “resilience” has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience offers an important new conceptual frame for feminist rhetoric, with emphasis on agency, change, and hope in the daily lives of individuals or groups of individuals disempowered by social or material forces. Collectively, these chapters create a robust conception of resilience as a complex rhetorical process, redeeming it from its popular association with individual heroism through an important focus on relationality, community, and an ethics of connection. Resilience, in this volume, is a specifically rhetorical response to complicated forces in individual lives. Through it, Feminist Rhetorical Resilience widens the interpretive space within which rhetoricians can work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0874218780
• ISBN 13: 9780874218787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Flynn Elizabeth A, Sotirin Patricia, Brady Ann