Advances in the History of Rhetoric Jan 2012

Rethinking Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography in a Global Context: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Bo Wang

Abstract

ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, feminist scholars have collectively produced a coherent and substantial body of research and established feminist rhetoric as a discipline. This article argues for linking feminist rhetoric with comparative rhetoric so as to open up conversations about theories, methodologies, and processes between the two fields. Examining a hybrid feminist discourse through early-twentieth-century Chinese women's texts, the author suggests that we rethink feminist rhetoric and historiography from a cross-cultural perspective and that Chinese women's rhetorical practices—negotiating cultural flux in contact zones—can be used as a model for current feminist scholarship. As the discipline moves toward a new dialogic paradigm, such a cross-cultural frame can help us examine our assumptions, reconsider our priorities, and discover and develop multiple local terms and concepts in reading texts across various historical periods and social, cultural, and geopolitical boundaries.

Journal
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2012-01-01
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2012.657048
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Topics
multimodality gender and writing

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