Standing in the Intersection

Karma R. Chávez is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Cindy L. Griffin is Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. She is the author of the Invitation to Public Speaking, Fourth Edition and the coeditor (with Karen A. Foss and Sonja K. Foss) of Feminist Rhetorical Theories.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: Difficult Dialogues: Intersectionality as Lived ExperienceMarsha HoustonIntroduction: Standing at the Intersections of Feminisms, Intersectionality, and Communication StudiesCindy L. Griffin and Karma R. ChávezPART I: ENTERING THE INTERSECTION 1. Mammies and Matriarchs: Feminine Style and Signifyin(g) in Carol Moseley Braun’s 2003–2004 Campaign for the PresidencyShanara Rose Reid-Brinkley2. The Intersectional Style of Free Love RhetoricKate Zittlow Rogness3. (Im)mobile Metaphors: Toward an Intersectional Rhetorical HistoryCarly S. Woods4. Placing Sex/Gender at the Forefront: Feminisms, Intersectionality, and Communication StudiesSara Hayden and D. Lynn O’Brien HallsteinPART II: AUDIENCES AND AUDIENCING 5. Intersecting Audiences: Public Commentary Concerning Audre Lorde’s Speech, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"Lester C. Olson6. Constitutive Intersectionality and the Affect of Rhetorical FormLeslie A. Hahner7. Spheres of Influence: The Intersections of Feminism and Transnationalism in Betty Millard’s Woman Against MythJennifer Keohane8. Essentialism, Intersectionality and Recognition: A Feminist Rhetorical Approach to the AudienceSara L. McKinnonContributorsIndex

"If a new generation of scholars embraces intersectional perspectives as personal as well as scholarly outlooks, then the future of feminist communication research will be substantively different from its past, and every back story entailed in that research, each feminist researcher's lived experience, will be affirming and empowering. This is the transformative potential entailed in this book, and I look forward to seeing it realized." — from the Foreword by Marsha Houston"Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate innovative ways by which rhetorical and feminist scholars may better understand the complexities of identity, audience, and discourse." — Rhetoric and Public Affairs"This powerful collection … [is] a unique, valuable resource … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This collection provides a concentrated focus on rhetoric and intersectionality that is a valuable resource for critics as well as a point of departure for additional criticism. It also offers a new set of feminist rhetorical studies—something overdue in communication studies." — Alberto González, coeditor of Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, Fifth Edition