Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis

by Kristine L. Blair (Editor), Lee Nickoson (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection offers self-reflexive, critical accounts of how feminist writing studies scholars variously situated within rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies plan, implement, examine, and represent community-based inquiry and pedagogy. Readers will gain insight into the hows and whys involved with this important disciplinary work. Sharing a commitment to social change, the twenty-one chapter discussions and five course designs complicate and continue to evolve possibilities for how we conceptualize writing research and teaching as deeply collaborative, inclusive, and reciprocal practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607328650
Publisher:	The WAC Clearinghouse
Publication date:	05/15/2019
Edition description:	1
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kristine L. Blair is professor of English and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Youngstown State University.

Lee Nickoson is associate professor of English and director of the General Studies Writing Program at Bowling Green State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Researching and Teaching Community as a Feminist Intervention Kristine L. Blair Lee Nickoson 3

Part 1 Methodology

Chapter 1 Post-Research Engagement: An Argument for Critical Examination of Researcher Roles after Research Ends Megan Adams 19

Chapter 2 Reciprocity as Epicenter: An 'After-Action Review' Mariana Grohowski 35

Chapter 3 Methodology & Accountability: Tracking Our Movements as Feminist Pedagogues Emily Ronay Johnston 57

Chapter 4 Listening to Research as a Feminist Ethos of Representation Lauren Rosenberg Emma Howes 75

Chapter 5 Funding Geography: The Legacy of Female-Run Settlement Culture for Contemporary Feminist Place-Based Pedagogy Initiatives Liz Rohan 93

Part 2 Partnerships

Chapter 6 Building Engaged Interventions in Graduate Education Keri E. Mathis Beth A. Boehm 115

Chapter 7 Learning Together Through Campus-Community Partnerships Jenn Brandt Cara Kozma 135

Chapter 8 Crafting Partnerships: Exploring Student-Led Feminist Strategies for Community Literacy Projects Kelly Concannon Mustari Akhi Morgan Musgrove Kim Lopez Ashley Nichols 155

Chapter 9 Ohio Farm Stories: A Feminist Approach to Collaboration, Conversation, and Engagement Christine Denecker Sarah Sisser 173

Chapter 10 Literacy Sponsorship as a Process of Translation: Using Actor-Network Theory to Analyze Power within Emergent Relationships at Family Scholar House Kathryn Perry 195

Chapter 11 Knotworking Collaborations: Fostering Community-Engaged Teachers and Scholars Mary P. Sheridan 213

Part 3 Activism

Chapter 12 Women-Only Bicycle Rides and Freedom of Movement: How Online Communicative Practices of Local Community Managers Support Feminist Interventions Angela Crow 237

Chapter 13 Literacy, Praxis and Participation in Environmental Deliberation Barbara George 255

Chapter 14 The Viability of Digital Spaces as Sites for Transnational Feminist Action and Engagement: Why We Need to Look at Digital Circulation Jessica Ouellette 275

Chapter 15 Advocating "Active" Intersectionality Through a Comparison of Two Slutwalks Jacqueline Schiappa 297

Chapter 16 A Peek Inside the Master's House: The Tale of Feminist Rhetorician as Candidate for U.S. Congress Angela K. Zimmann 317

Part 4 Praxis

Chapter 17 Pedagogical Too-Muchness: A Feminist Approach to Community-Based Learning, Multi-Modal Composition, Social Justice Education, and More Beth Godbee 335

Chapter 18 Trans/feminist Practice of Collaboration in the Art Activism Classroom Ames Hawkins Joan Giroux 355

Chapter 19 Coming Out as Other in the Graduate Writing Classroom: Feminist Pedagogical Moves for Mentoring Community Activists Jess Tess Trixie G. Smith Katie Manthey 373

Chapter 20 Safely Social: User-Centered Design and Difference Feminism Douglas M. Walls Brandy Dieterle Jennifer Roth Miller 391

Chapter 21 The Unheard Voices of Dissatisfied Clients: Listening to Community Partners as Feminist Praxis Danielle M. Williams 409

Part 5 Course Designs

Chapter 22 "We Write to Serve": The Intersections of Service Learning, Grant Writing, and the Feminist Rhetorical Agency Florence Elizabeth Bacabac 429

Chapter 23 Making the Political Personal Again: Strategies for Addressing Student Resistance to Feminist Intervention Julie Myatt Barger 445

Chapter 24 "Because your heart breaks and it moves to action": Digital Storytelling Beyond the Gate Stephanie Bower 459

Chapter 25 Feminist Activism in the Core: Student Activism in Theory and Practice Katherine Fredlund 475

Chapter 26 Rhetorical Interventions: A Project Design for Composing and Editing Wikipedia Articles Julie D. Nelson 489

Afterword Krista Ratcliffe 505

Contributors 511