Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2016

Food Fights: Cookbook Rhetorics, Monolithic Constructions of Womanhood, and Field Narratives in Technical Communication

Marie E. Moeller ; Erin A. Frost East Carolina University

Abstract

Field narratives that (re)classify technical genres as liberating for women risk supporting the notion that feminism is a completed project in technical communication scholarship. This article suggests that technical communicators reexamine the impact of past approaches to critical engagement at the intersections of gender studies and technical communication; cookbooks provide a material example. The authors illustrate how a feminist approach to cookbooks as technical/cultural artifacts can productively revise field narratives in technical communication.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2016-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2016.1113025
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