Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument

Barbara Tomlinson is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor. In 2009, she received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Acknowledgments 1. Transforming the Terms of Reading: Ideologies of Argument and the Trope of the Angry Feminist 2. Ideologies of Style: Discursive Policing and Feminist Intersectional Argument 3. Anger: Grammars of Affect and Authority 4. Tough Babies, or Anger in the Superior Position 5. Faux Feminism and the Rhetoric of Betrayal 6. Intensification and the Discourse of Decline 7. Ridicule: Phallic Fables and Spermatic Romance 8. The Labor of Argument and Feminist Futures Notes References Index

"This scholarly, original approach provides feminists with a viable means to 'turn hegemony on its head'; by using arguments designed to silence and ridicule them into arenas that reveal gendered power and its working, women can effect broad-ranging change. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice