Eminent Rhetoric - Language, Gender, and Cultural Tropes

Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. She locates six strategies in which women are particularly targeted by politicized rhetoric and shows how they are used in a variety of language-informed social arenas. Using bell hooks' pedagogy of talking back, Eminent Rhetoric argues that women need not only to learn how to recognize victimizing rhetoric, but also to start to challenge it and its rhetors. Women must be shown how the everyday language of politicians, educators, and newscasters is not natural but is marked--designed for manipulative purposes that put women at risk.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultural Tropes and Gender Relations
Relational Pedagogy: Rhetoricized Education and Growing Up Female
Romancing the Heroine, Reading the Self: Same Difference
Media Warfare: Newsmakers and Militaristic Thinking
Gender Games: The Troping of Intellectual Debate
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Elizabeth A. Fay is Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She has published six books on British Romantic literature, including Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism (2021), Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (2010), and Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal (2001). Her articles and books include discussions of a range of Mary Shelley's works.

ELIZABETH A. FAY is Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is co-editor of Working-Class Women in Academia: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory (1993) and a contributor to Constructing and Reconstructing Gender: The Links among Communication, Language, and Gender (1992).

Product details

• Authors: Elizabet A. Fay, Elizabeth Fay, Elizabeth A. Fay
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.1994
• EAN: 9780897893091
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-309-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociolinguistics, Gender studies, gender groups, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Politics, Law, and Government