{"title":"Chapter 23. Making the Political Personal Again: Strategies for Addressing Student Resistance to Feminist Intervention","authors":"Julie Myatt Barger","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.23","url":null,"abstract":"The author proposes that mentoring students who resist identifying as feminists even when they agree with the movement’s tenets requires strategies that promote recognition of the diversity of women’s lived experiences and contemplation about what motivated their responses to the opportunities granted or denied them by the cultural practices of their time. This literature class case study draws from the work of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy (RCL) scholars to present a framework for introducing students to the need for feminist interventions prior to involving them in community activism.","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116101712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 21. The Unheard Voices of Dissatisfied Clients: Listening to Community Partners as Feminist Praxis","authors":"Danielle M. Williams","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.21","url":null,"abstract":"Williams draws on her recent experience teaching first-year digital writing to examine the benefits of community-based multimodal student projects for community partners. Readers learn how the involvement of volunteer community partners as evaluators of student video projects revealed “the complex and multivalent nature of ‘success’ in publicly-shared community-based writing projects.” Examination of their evaluation processes and narratives tell the story of how community partners brought different values to the project. By listening to these different perspectives, Williams suggests interventions that feminist teachers can make to improve future projects.","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114507251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 4. Listening to Research as a Feminist Ethos of Representation","authors":"E. Howes, L. Rosenberg","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, we explore how our research practices and methodological choices offer opportunities to embody a feminist ethos of responsible, strategic practice. Our inquiry takes place in two different research sites where we enact ethnographic and archival research methods. Contemplating our research practices, we promote an ethos of valuing multiple perspectives by examining the ideological lenses we use, acknowledging our different, sometimes conflicting, subject positions, and allowing those perspectives to shape our work. We seek to expand traditional conceptions of what counts as knowledge, data, and research as we strive to become more active rhetorical listeners. Our methodologies center on the needs of participants alongside our own, and we are committed to ongoing interrogation of cultural assumptions and biases, including, but not limited to, gender subjugation.","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131756317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 5. Funding Geography: The Legacy of Female-Run Settlement Culture for Contemporary Feminist Place-Based Pedagogy Initiatives","authors":"Liz Rohan","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"Rohan’s case study deploys archival methods to historicize the work of contemporary feminist teachers, researchers, and administrators who develop community engagement and place-based initiatives. It provides data about historic feminists working and writing in the U.S. progressive era in Chicago and Detroit, with special attention to the history of a Detroit-area settlement house, the Tau Beta Community House, which flourished between 1917 and 1954. Historical figures such as Lucy Carner and Borgchild Halvorsen suggested that community service work among feminist academics has a history that is linked to the work of progressive era feminists, particularly those inspired by Jane Addams, and like-minded colleagues running settlements. Thus, this chapter also highlights the dynamics leading to the demise of this feminist-run settlement culture during the politically conservative decades following the Depression. Overall, Rohan historicizes community-based feminist projects as a way to trace contemporary place-based pedagogical movements sponsored by Detroit educators and artists.","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131026950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 10. Literacy Sponsorship as a Process of Translation: Using Actor-Network Theory to Analyze Power within Emergent Relationships at Family Scholar House","authors":"Kathryn Perry","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines a moment of literacy at an educational nonprofit called Family Scholar House (FSH) to understand the multiple dimensions underlying literacy practices, including material conditions, social relationships, and institutional ideologies. Based on interviews with both low-income single mothers who are full-time college students as well as FSH staff, this chapter analyzes an application for government assistance using Actor-Network Theory. By examining this literacy moment as a process of translation in which diverse elements interact with the goal of achieving a successful application, this study shows how this population of college students are made (in)visible in specific ways by the negotiated power dynamics of the application itself, the individual applying, and her social support relationships.","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115564584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 14. The Viability of Digital Spaces as Sites for Transnational Feminist Action and Engagement: Why We Need to Look at Digital Circulation","authors":"Jessica Ouellette","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.2.14","url":null,"abstract":"In the early spring of 2013, through the use of social media, the global feminist protest group FEMEN staged a “topless jihad” day in support of Tunisian member, Amina Tyler, who was threatened with physical punishment for posting to Facebook and Twitter images of her naked body, covered in written messages such as “Fuck your morals” and “My body is mine.” Because new media systems have vastly changed communication and information-sharing processes, they have also altered the ways we engage rhetorically in feminist activism. Ouellette argues that in order to engage effectively in feminist activism and foster transnational connections within digital spaces, we need to look at the ways in which texts move and circulate, and how, in and through those movements, textual meanings and rhetorical purposes shift and change. To achieve such goals, Ouellette provides a case study of the events and protests surrounding Tyler and FEMEN’s protests—specifically the texts that circulated, and the political and economic investments undergirding that circulation.","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125613855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction. Researching and Teaching Community as a Feminist Intervention","authors":"K. Blair, Lee Nickoson","doi":"10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2018.0056.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":282298,"journal":{"name":"Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121947317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}