Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption Joy Ritchie and Kathleen Boardman.

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Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption Joy Ritchie and Kathleen Boardman

Why this essay? Historical point of reference Establishes the role of women in rhetoric and composition Will have an impact on all of us as students and writers

Author Info: Ritchie Assoc. Prof. of English and women’s studies, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln “Feminisms and Composition: In other words” (with Susan Jarratt) Available Means: An anthology of women’s rhetorical praxis” (with Kate Ronald

Author Info: Boardman Professor of Composition at Univ. Nevada, Reno Northern Nevada Writing Project Work has appeared in numerous publications

Article Info Published in CCC in 1999 Written after 10 years of research on conversations and collaborative research Implications of feminist theory

Background Definition of Feminism Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes The movement organized around this belief

Question 1 Define: Inclusion Metonymy Disruption Trope

Editorial Summary “…by broadening the range of persons whose work as teachers and theorists we take seriously (inclusion), by providing a set of figures and concepts to use in thinking through the hierarchies of our field (metonymy), and by openly contesting masculinist views of writing (disruption)”

Inclusion What? Correcting the absence of women, Inserting women’s perspectives, Giving women equal status with men Problems? “Women’s Issues”, Attempts to include women’s have ignored minority women

Metonymy What? Emerging pedagogical theories, adopting feminist approaches that seemed useful, moving names of women into prominent places Problems? “midwives”, “foremothers”

Resources Comp-Pile H-Rhetor

Disruption What? Raise questions, critique disciplinary practices and structures, analyze “process narratives”, speak out Problems? Create anger, undermine solidarity

Question 2 What are the broader implications of this essay beyond what the authors discuss?

Final Thoughts “..when composition is reviewing its past and seeking to chart new directions…political and economic conditions will create continuing intellectual and practical “straightjackets” in composition’s next 50 years. The energy of feminists will by vital to the disruption of restrictive theory and practice.”