Eminent rhetoric : language, gender, and cultural tropes
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Bibliographic Information
Eminent rhetoric : language, gender, and cultural tropes
（Series in language and ideology / edited by Donaldo Macedo）
Bergin & Garvey, 1994
Available at 11 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-151) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. She locates six strategies in which women are particularly targeted by politicized rhetoric and shows how they are used in a variety of language-informed social arenas. Using bell hooks' pedagogy of talking back, Eminent Rhetoric argues that women need not only to learn how to recognize victimizing rhetoric, but also to start to challenge it and its rhetors. Women must be shown how the everyday language of politicians, educators, and newscasters is not natural but is marked--designed for manipulative purposes that put women at risk.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Cultural Tropes and Gender Relations Relational Pedagogy: Rhetoricized Education and Growing Up Female Romancing the Heroine, Reading the Self: Same Difference Media Warfare: Newsmakers and Militaristic Thinking Gender Games: The Troping of Intellectual Debate Bibliography Index
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