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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political

Deem, Melissa D.

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Title
Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
Author(s)
Deem, Melissa D.
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Department of Study
Speech Communication
Discipline
Speech Communication
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Political Science, General
Language
eng
Abstract
"The displacement of radical forms of women's political practices necessitates not the ""recovery"" of certain histories, but the very ""creation"" of histories which reconsider the meaning of ""eventfulness"" and change. By examining the anomalous rhetorical practices and their infectious intensities, new conceptions of feminism's pasts can be created which have implications for our understanding of historical change, eventfulness, and contemporary feminist discursive practices. Methodologically, I am concerned with what I term ""minor rhetorics,"" following Deleuze and Guattari's work on ""minor literature."" ""Minor rhetorics"" and the anomalous practices associated with them are never accounted for in recent molar histories of feminism, even though they exerted significant force within feminism."
Graduation Semester
1998
Type of Resource
text
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