Rhetoric Review Jul 2006

Rhetorical Situations and the Straits of Inappropriateness: Teaching Feminist Activism

Elizabeth Ervin

Abstract

This essay argues that the rhetorical strategies of radical activist groups can complicate our theoretical understanding of rhetorical situation. It first examines the textual practices of the Situationist International (SI), a group of French anarchists who in the 1950s and 1960s purported to make accessible to non-elites modernist experimentation in art, literature, architecture, and urban design. It then describes and reflects on what happens when these practices are utilized in a women's studies classroom with an explicit activist orientation.

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Rhetoric Review
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2006-07-01
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10.1207/s15327981rr2503_5
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