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Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Karen A. Foss

Sonja K. Foss

Cindy L. Griffin

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

The anniversary edition marks thirty years of offering an indispensable review and analysis of thinkers who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary rhetorical theory: I. A. Richards, Ernesto Grassi, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Stephen Toulmin, Richard Weaver, Kenneth Burke, Jürgen Habermas, bell hooks, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault. The brief biographical sketches locate the theorists in time and place, showing how life experiences influenced perspectives on rhetorical thought. The concise explanations of complex concepts are clear, engaging, insightful, and highly accessible, serving as an excellent primer for reading the major works of these scholars. The critical commentary is carefully chosen to highlight implications and to place the theories within a broader rhetorical context. Each chapter ends with a complete bibliography of works by the theorists.
 Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Foss et al., Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric (ISBN 9781577662068): Hauser, Introduction to Rhetorical Theory, 2E (ISBN 9781577662211); and Smith, Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9781478634546).

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 30th Anniversary Edition

Robert Trapp

Waveland Press. Inc.

The fourth edition of Inviting Transformation continues to offer an innovative approach to presentational speaking at a very reasonable price. The authors introduce readers to invitational rhetoric, teaching speakers to clarify ideas and to work to achieve understanding for all participants in an interaction. A primary goal of presentational speaking is to create an environment in which growth and change can occur for both the audience and the speaker. The text highlights four external conditions affecting transformational environments: safety, openness, freedom, and value (honoring the intrinsic worth of all individuals).
 To reflect respect for the diversity of the world, Sonja Foss and Karen Foss include options from many speaking traditions and practices to foster creativity. Discussions of all the processes of presenting selecting a speaking goal, organizing ideas, elaborating on ideas, and delivering the presentation emphasize inclusive speaking practices. Sample presentations provide clear and contemporary examples of the best invitational speaking practices.
 The authors recognize readers as competent communicators and encourage them to think about and systematize their approaches to presentational speaking. The exceptionally accessible writing style is an aid to readers in thinking through strategies for meeting their interactional goals. Readers learn to design and deliver effective presentations for any speaking situation.
 Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly.

Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, Fourth Edition

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

For over forty years, Theories of Human Communication has facilitated the understanding of the theories that define the discipline of communication. The authors present a comprehensive summary of major communication theories, current research, extensions, and applications in a thoughtfully organized and engaging style.Part I of the extensively updated twelfth edition sets the stage for how to think about and study communication. The first chapter establishes the foundations of communication theory. The next chapter reviews four frameworks for organizing the theories and their contributions to the nature of inquiry. Part II covers theories centered around the communicator, message, medium, and communication with the nonhuman. Part III addresses theories related to communication contexts-relationship, group, organization, health, culture, and society. "From the Source" contributions from theorists provide insight into the inspirations, motivations, and goals behind the theories. Online instructor's resource materials include extensive outlines, key terms, exam questions, and text graphics.The theories include those important for their continuing influence in the field as well as emerging theories that encourage thinking about issues in new ways. For a reasonable price, readers are able to explore the patterns, trends, trajectories, and intricacies of the landscape of communication theory and will have an invaluable resource for future reference.

Theories of Human Communication, Twelfth Edition

Stephen W. Littlejohn

John G. Oetzel

Feminism in Practice uses feminism as a blueprint for exploring change strategies. It features twenty contemporary feminists from diverse arenas, including activists, comedians, musicians, politicians, poets, and showrunners. The women come to life through line drawings, brief biographies, extensive quotations, their definitions of feminism, and the change strategies they employ. Questions for reflection encourage readers to think through their own relationship to feminism and change. 
Chapter 1 defines feminism, raising issues with the typical definition of feminism as the effort to achieve equality between women and men. It concludes with a description of over twenty types of feminism. Chapter 2 describes the triggering events, happening places, and key ideas of the four waves of feminism. The opening chapters provide a comprehensive understanding of the diversity and complexity of feminist movement. 
The book is organized around five primary objectives that animate contemporary change efforts—proclaiming identity, naming a problem, enriching a system, changing a system, and creating an alternative system. Each objective is developed through theoretical assumptions and twelve change strategies that show it at work in feminist movement. Feminism in Practice also serves as a practical handbook that readers can use to experiment with the strategies and expand their toolkits for creating change in their lives and worlds. 
The authors are uniquely qualified to explore issues of feminism and change. Karen Foss and Sonja Foss are second wave feminists who have written extensively on alternative change strategies, feminist communication, and feminist theory. Alena Ruggerio brings to the project the standpoint of a third wave feminist at home in pop culture. Her scholarship lies at the intersection of rhetoric, feminism, and religious studies.

Feminism in Practice: Communication Strategies for Making Change

Reference

Alena Amato Ruggerio

Words, Language & Grammar

Theories of Human Communication, Thirteenth Edition

These 25 selections allow the reader to sample the multiple voices contributing to the creation of knowledge through rhetoric. Exposure to the theorists' ideas in their own words provides a richer, more meaningful understanding. While the same number of pages are devoted to each theorist, in some cases one lengthy essay is included that captures the core ideas of a theorist; in other instances, several examples are offered. The extensive bibliography of works about the theorists included in the anthology is a valuable resource.
 Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Foss et al., Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 30th Anniversary Edition (ISBN 9781478615248); Hauser, Introduction to Rhetorical Theory, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577662211); and Smith, Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781577667971).

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric

Waveland Pr Inc.

Five core assumptions characterize invitational rhetoric: (1) the purpose of communicating is to gain understanding; (2) the speaker and the audience are equal; (3) different perspectives constitute valuable resources; (4) change happens when people choose to change themselves; and (5) all participants are willing to be changed by the interaction. The goals of invitational rhetoric are to clarify ideas and to create an environment in which growth and change can occur for both audience and speaker. Speakers can facilitate the exchange of ideas by creating conditions of freedom, safety, value, and openness. Freedom is at the heart of an invitation to transformation--the freedom to choose to change; safety generates confidence for all participants to express ideas; value recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of all participants; and openness is a willingness to explore diverse perspectives. This ideal environment increases the possibilities of achieving mutual understanding. The authors designed the book as a concise guide for becoming adept and creative presentational speakers. Sample presentations reflect the diversity of interactional goals, focus, frames, organizational patterns, forms of elaboration, and connections discussed in the text. 
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Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World (2nd Edition)

Waveland PRess

This collection highlights the comprehensive, diverse, accessible body of work that exists on understanding symbol use from feminist perspectives. Selections from the works of nine contemporary feminist theorists allow readers to explore a variety of ways of framing experiences and events. The voices of Cheris Kramarae, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, Mary Daly, Starhawk, Paula Gunn Allen, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Sally Miller Gearhart, and Sonia Johnson challenge traditional viewpoints and encourage new ways of thinking. The selections address how social change happens, the strategies available to promote change, and the consequences of changing dominant practices and constructs. The editors worked with many of the theorists to choose representative works from different genres that exemplify the trajectory of their ideas. Brief introductions provide biographical details of the lives of the theorists and contextualize the key ideas in the works selected.
Accompany volume also available from Waveland Press: Foss et al., Feminist Rhetorical Theories (ISBN 9781577664963).
 Title of related interest also by Waveland Press: Borisoff-Chesebro, Communicating Power and Gender (ISBN 9781577666905).

Essential for anyone who seeks to understand the contemporary gender landscape, Gender Stories defines gender as the socially constructed meanings that are assigned to bodies. The book helps readers navigate issues of gender by introducing them to the ubiquitous gender binary, the problems with much of the research on gender differences, and the variety of gender stories in popular culture.
 At the heart of the book is a description of the process of becoming a gendered person through crafting and performing gender stories. Because each gender performance is unique, a virtually unlimited number of genders exists not just two, as the gender binary would have us believe. The same multiplicity that characterizes the gender landscape characterizes the individual, who typically changes gender multiple times a day and across the lifespan. In Gender Stories, personal gender performances are framed within a philosophy of choice. Readers are encouraged to become more conscious of the choices they have in constructing their gender identities and to allow others the same choice by respecting their gender performances. Readers will easily find a place for themselves in the book, regardless of their views on gender, because one perspective on gender is not presented as the right one. Gender Stories affirms and legitimizes diverse perspectives as providing more comprehensive knowledge about gender for everyone. Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly.
 Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Borisoff-Chesebro, Communicating Power and Gender (ISBN 9781577666905).

Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World

Mary E. Domenico

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Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, 30th Anniversary Edition

Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, Fourth Edition

Theories of Human Communication, Twelfth Edition

Feminism in Practice: Communication Strategies for Making Change

Theories of Human Communication, Thirteenth Edition

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric

Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World (2nd Edition)

Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory

Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World