Today, we’re reading Donner’s piece, “The Household Work Men and Women Do, and Why” New York Times and the study she cites from Gallup, ““Women Still Handle Main Household Tasks in US.” As you read, consider the following questions:
Today, we’re reading a selection from Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. As you read, please consider the following questions:
*This story talks about abuse and alcoholism* Today, we’re listening to Miller & Januszewski’s StoryCorps, “I Remember Counting the Beer Bottles” As you listen consider the following questions:
This week we’re reading Devva Kasnitz’s (2020) “The Politics of Disability Performativity: An Autoethnography” from Current Anthropology. As you shape your response to the essay, you may find the following questions helpful:
Today, we’re reading some selections from Frank & Treichler’s Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage. As you formulate your response, you may find the following questions helpful: The first reading you’ll encounter discusses the history of pronoun use. What does this history of Old English pronouns reveal about English… Read More Frank & Treichler Gender & Language PTC
This week we’re reading Leigh Gruwell’s “Wikipedia’s Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Feminist Rhetorical (In)action” from Computers & Composition. As you formulate your response, you may find the following questions helpful: How do the systems of Wikipedia exclude women’s voices? Why is this important to understanding knowledge online? How is understanding the human subjects… Read More Gruwell Wikipedia Politics of Exclusion
Today we’re reading Carleigh Davis’s article, “Feminist Rhetorical Practices in Digital Spaces” from Computers & Composition. As you prepare your response, you may find the following questions helpful: What is dialogic collaboration? How is it also a hallmark of professional/technical writing? What does this say about gender in this field? Similarly, multivocality seems to be… Read More Davis Feminist Rhetorical Practices
This week we’re examining Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch’s chapter “Feminist Rhetorical Studies as a Robust Interdisciplinary Framework” from Feminist Rhetorical Practices. As you formulate your response, you might one of the following discussion questions helpful: What does it mean to be interdisciplinary? How is this essential to feminist rhetorical methodology? Royster and… Read More Royster & Kirsch Feminist Interdisciplinarity
This week we’re reading K. J. Rawson’s “Queering Feminist Rhetorical Canonization” from Rhetorica in Motion. You may find the following discussion questions helpful in shaping your response: Rawson asks how we might define a “woman.” Why is this question essential to his argument? How is this question particularly relevant in today’s political climate? What is… Read More Rawson Queering Feminist Canonization
This week we’re reading and excerpt from Kim Hensley Owens’s Writing Childbirth. You may find the following discussion questions helpful in formulating your response: Owens argues that “women who write birth plans expect to be ‘rhetorically disabled’ during childbirth” (69). What do you think this means? How does the genre of a birth plan attempt… Read More Owens Writing Childbirth
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