دانلود کتاب Radical feminism, writing, and critical agency: from manifesto to modem

Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.This book traces the intersection of radical feminism, composition, and print culture in order to address a curious gap in feminist composition studies: the manifesto-writing, collaborative-action-taking radical feminists of the 1960s and 1970s. Long before contemporary debates over essentialism, radical feminist groups questioned both what it was to be a woman and to perform womanhood, and a key part of that questioning took the form of very public, very contentious texts by such writers and groups as Shulamith Firestone, the Redstockings, and WITCH (the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell). Rhodes explores how these radical women's texts have been silenced in contemporary rhetoric and composition, and compares their work to that of contemporary online activists, finding that both point to a "network literacy" that blends ever-shifting identities with ever-changing technologies in order to take action. Ultimately, Rhodes argues, the articulation of radical feminist textuality can benefit both scholarship and classroom as it situates writers as rhetorical agents who can write, resist, and finally act within a network of discourses and identifications.“…this book provides a powerful set of ideas and suggestions for theoretical, historical, and pedagogical concerns.” — Computers and Composition Online“…brings together the best and brightest feminist theories and the historicizing practices of poststructuralist thought to provide both a history of feminist thought in the last half of the 20th century and a consideration of the ways in which that history has impacted the teaching of academic writing in higher education in the U.S. This is no mean feat, and it is well and reasonably executed.” — CHOICE"This is a fresh, original treatment of a neglected area in feminist studies, and Rhodes does an admirable job of teasing out the complexities. This book fills a major gap in the scholarship by recuperating radical feminist discourse." — Lynn Worsham, coeditor of Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise