| Title |
Author(s) |
Journal? |
Publication information |
Comments about text or use |
| Available Means |
Kate Ronald and Joy Ritchie |
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Pittsburgh UP, Date, etc. |
Book recommended by several on WPA-L. Used in Graduate Courses. For further info and ordering info, go to http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35397 |
| Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations |
Miller, Hildy and Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian |
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U of Alabama P, 2005 |
Collection of chapters exploring how women establish ethos or find their voices at various moments in rhetorical history. |
| Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook |
Gesa E. Kirsch; Faye Spencer Maor; Lance Massey; Lee Nickoson-Massey; and and Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau |
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Bedford, 2003 |
It is predominantly theoretical about feminist writing (i.e. not necessarily examples of feminist writing, although certainly not exclusive of feminist writing). It has Wendy Bishop, Andrea Lunsford, and many, many composition and feminist scholars. |
| Feminist Rhetorical Theories |
Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, and Cindy L. Griffin |
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Sage, 1999 |
Includes chapters on Cheris Kramarae; bell hooks; Gloria Anzaldua; Mary Daly; Starhawk; Paula Gunn Allen; Trinh T. Minh-ha; Sally Miller Gearhart; and Sonia Johnson. |
| Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition |
Miriam Brody |
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Southern Illinois P, 1993 |
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| Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theories |
Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, and Cindy L. Griffin |
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2003 |
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| Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind |
Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule |
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1997 |
It is very narrative and has lots of discreet sections that could be assigned as readings for a response journal. |
| Knowledge, Difference, and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's "Ways of Knowing" |
Goldberger, Tarule, Belenky, and Clinchy |
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Basic, 1998 |
Includes 15 essays about how various disciplines have been transformed, including pieces by Sandra Harding, Aida Hurtado, Sara Ruddick, Michael Mahoney, and Patricinio Schweickart. |
| The Woman That Never Evolved |
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy |
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Harvard UP, 1999 |
Try Hrdy's other texts, too. |
| Maternal Thinking: A Politics of Peace |
Sara Ruddick |
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Beacon, 1989 |
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| Wife of Bath's Prologue |
Chaucer |
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| "Writing against Writing: The Predicament of Ecriture Feminine in Composition Studies" |
Lynn Worsham |
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in Harkin and Schilb's _Contending with Words_ |
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| Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism |
Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl, eds. |
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Palgrave MacMillan, 1997 |
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| Feminist Critique of Language |
Deborah Cameron, ed. |
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Routledge, 1998 |
Includes essays by Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Deborah Cameron, Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates and Kira Hall. |
| Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition |
Andrea Lunsford |
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U of Pitt P, 1995 |
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| The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader |
Amelia Jones, ed. |
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Routledge, 2002 |
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| Appropriate(ing) Dress |
Carol Mattingly |
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Southern Illinois P, 1992 |
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| "Laugh of the Medusa" |
Helene Cixous |
|
1975 |
Here is a link to an excerpt: http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/cixous_medusa.htm |
| Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
Adrienne Rich |
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| Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
Susan Faludi |
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| Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations |
Hildy Miller and Lillian Bridwell Bowles |
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University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL 2005 |
collection of chapters exploring how women establish |
| Feminist Literary Theory & Criticism: A Norton Reader |
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, eds. |
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Norton, January 2007 |
This will be a new collection designed to be a core reader for feminist theory and criticism courses |
