Feminist Literacies, 1968-75In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and consciousness-raising. Kathryn Thoms Flannery discusses this outpouring and the group education, brainstorming, and creative activism it fostered as the manifestation of a feminist literacy quite separate from women's studies programs at universities or the large-scale political workings of second-wave feminism. Seeking to break down traditional barriers such as the dichotomies of writer/reader or student/teacher, these new works also forged polemical alternatives to the forms of argumentation traditionally used to silence women, creating a space for fresh voices. Feminist Literacies explores these truly radical feminist literary practices and pedagogies that flourished during a brief era of volatility and hope. |
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... participants. It was the members of the anonymous workshop who did the talking and writing that produced the flyer. I cannot say that they “earn [ed] rhetorical authority by . . . stating explicitly their identities, positions or ...
... participant in workshop 13. Like much activist print production, this flyer exists because ordinary people like me ... participants. Here in capsule is the paradoxical rhetorical move that Adrienne Rich identifies in her essay “Notes ...
... participants in workshop 13 were a racially and ethnically diverse group, I was the only middle—class, college-educated white woman. I thus occupied a position just this side of male: presumably I could know more than a man could know ...
... participants—knowing full well their positioning in this rhetorical context—nonetheless made use of rhetorical resources at hand. In discussing what she calls “fractured identities,” Donna Haraway notes that among those who have ...
... participants were thus standing in the stead of such women even when we were not literally so representative. In standing for such a coalition, the workshop members were also pointing out the literal absence of this coalitional array ...
Contents
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Feminist Periodicals | 23 |
Reclaiming Feminish Polemic | 60 |
3 That Train Full of Poetry | 97 |
Feminist Performance Work | 132 |
5 The DoItYourself Classroom | 168 |
1972 New York State Womens Political Caucus List of Conveners | 203 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 231 |
Index | 249 |