Rhetoric Review Jul 2017

Feminist HistoriographyAs If: Performativity and Representation in Feminist Histories of Rhetoric

Sarah Noble Frank The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

The recently diagnosed “broadening imperative” in revisionary historiography is of special concern to feminist historians, for whom critique of traditional methodological presuppositions has been central to the feminist revisionary project. By examining the performative and figurative elements of feminist historiographical discourse, feminist historians and historiographers can both identify sites of feminist rhetorical resistance to traditional presuppositions, and gain an understanding of how feminist revisionary methodologies have been re-assimilated into traditional methodological and rhetorical paradigms.

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Rhetoric Review
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2017-07-03
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2017.1317571
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