Coalition of Who? Regendering Scholarly Community in the History of Rhetoric

Author(s): Patricia Bizzell and K.J. Rawson

Tags: feminists and feminism, queer theory, transgender rhetorics, women’s rhetorics

This 20-minute video captures our conversation about issues regarding feminist and transgender rhetorics that we believe are crucial to the Coalition’s future. Here we ask: Should the organization continue to provide spaces for people the world sees as women? Should it acknowledge that biological gender has become a fluid category, just as femininity did for feminists of Pat’s generation? Should the organization redefine its mission to include anyone who self-identifies as feminist? Is “feminist” even the right word to use? In sum, our conversation explores how the wide-ranging scholarly work on women, feminism, and gender produced throughout the past few decades might impact the purpose and future of the Coalition.
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