feminism, rhetoric, and differences that matter
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Poirot, Kristan
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, identiteit, zwarte vrouwen, kiesrecht, etniciteit, lesbische vrouwen, LHBT, feminisme, vrouwenbewegingen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Kristan Poirot demonstrates that contemporary theories about sex, gender, identity, and difference compel a rethinking of the history of feminist movements and their rhetorical practices. .Poirot focuses on five case studies : the circulation of Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I a Woman?' in early and contemporary feminist contexts: the visual rhetorics of the feminist self-help health movement: the public discourse of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and early nineteenth-century ideas about suffrage, sex, and race: the conflicts over lesbian sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s: and the discourse that surrounds twenty-first-century SlutWalks. In the process, Poirot rethinks the terms through which we understand U.S. feminist movements to explore the ways feminism has questioned sexed distinctions and practices over time.