Draft, July 11, 2007
Suggested List of Readings for Doctoral Exam in Women in the Rhetorical Tradition,
Feminist Rhetorics, and Feminist Pedagogies/Composition Theories
Originally compiled by Dr. Beth Burmester, Summer 2006
Feminist Methodology
Bizzell, Patricia. “Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What
Differences Do They Make?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30.4 (Fall 2000): 517.
Enos, Richard Leo. “The Archaeology of Women in Rhetoric: Rhetorical Sequencing
as a Research Method for Historical Scholarship.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly
(Winter 2002): 65-81.
Flynn, Elizabeth. “Composing as a Woman.” College Composition and
Communication 39 (1988): 423-35.
Flynn, Elizabeth. “Composing ‘Composing as a Woman’: A Perspective on
Research.” CCC 41 (1990): 83-89.
Glenn, Cheryl. “sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of
Rhetoric.” CCC 45.2 (May 1994): 180-99.
Jarratt, Susan. Rereading the Sophists. Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 1991.
Matttingly, Carol. “Telling Evidence: Rethinkig What Counts in Rhetoric.” Rhetoric
Society Quarterly (Winter 2002): 99-108.
Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among
African American Women. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2000.
Sullivan, Patricia A. “Feminism and Methodology in Composition Studies.” In
Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Ed. Gesa E. Kirsch and
Patricia A. Sullivan. Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 1992. 37-61.
Sutherland, Christine Manson. “Feminist Historiography: Research Methods in
Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Winter 2002): 109-22.
Women as Rhetors/Historical Women in Rhetoric (Primary Sources)
ANTHOLOGIES
Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, compiler. Man Cannot Speak for Her: Key Texts of the
Early Feminists. Volume II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1989.
Logan, Shirley Wilson, ed. We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth
Century Black Women. Carbondale: SIUP, 1999.
Ritchie, Joy, and Kate Ronald, eds. Available Means: An Anthology of Women’s
Rhetoric(s). Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2001.
SINGLE-FIGURE BOOKS
BOOK CHAPTERS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Women in the Rhetorical Tradition (Secondary Sources)
Biesecker, Barbara. “Coming to Terms with the Recent Attempts to Write Women
into the History of Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 25.2 (1992): 140-61.
Connors, Robert. “The Exclusion of Women from Classical Rhetoric.” In A Rhetoric
of Doing. Ed. Neil Nakadate, Stephen P. Witte, and Roger D. Cherry.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 65-78.
Lunsford, Andrea, ed. Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. U
of Pittsburgh P, 1995.
Henry, Madeleine M. Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical
Tradition. NY: Oxford UP, 1995.
Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through
the Renaissance. Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 1997.
Ritchie, Joy, and Kate Ronald. “Riding Long Coattails, Subverting Tradition: The
Tricky Business of Feminists Teaching Rhetoric(s).” In Feminism and
Composition Studies: In Other Words. Eds. Susan C. Jarratt and Lynn
Worsham. NY: MLA, 1998. 217-38.
Feminist Rhetorical Theory
ANTHOLOGIES
Foss, Karen A., Sonja K. Foss, and Robert Trapp. Readings in Feminist Rhetorical
Theory. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2006.
Foss, Karen A., Sonja K. Foss, and Cindy L. Griffin. Feminist Rhetorical Theories.
Sage Publications, 1999.
BOOKS
Martin, Jane Roland. Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman.
New Haven, NJ: Yale UP, 1985.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Bizzell, Patricia. “Praising Folly: Constructing a Postmodern Rhetorical Authority as
a Woman.” In Feminine Principles and Women’s Experience in American
Composition and Rhetoric. Ed. Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Janet Emig. PA:
U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. 27-42.
Swearingen, C. Jan. “Pistis, Expression, and Belief: Prolegomenon for a Feminist
Rhetoric of Motives.” In A Rhetoric of Doing. Eds. Stephen P. Witte, Neil
Nakadate, and Roger D. Cherry. Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 1992. 123-43.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gearhart, Sally Miller. “The Womanization of Rhetoric.” Women’s Studies
International Quarterly 2 (1979): 195-201.
Mulderig, Gerald. “Gertrude Buck’s Rhetorical Theory and Modern Composition
Teaching.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 14 (1984): 96-104.
Kirby, John T. “The ‘Great Triangle’ in Early Greek Rhetoric and Poetics.” Rhetorica
8.3 (Summer 1990): 213-28.
Crockett, Andy. “Gorgias’s ‘Encomium of Helen’: Violent Rhetoric or Radical
Feminism?” Rhetoric Review 13.1 (Fall 1994): 71-91.
SINGLE-FIGURES
Campbell, JoAnne. Toward a Feminist Rhetoric: The Writings of Gertrude Buck. PA:
U of Pittsburgh P, 1996.
Donawerth, Jane, and Julie Strongson, editors and translators. Madeleine de Scudery:
Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. Chicago: U of Chicago
P, 2004.
Springborg, Patricia, ed. Mary Astell: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I and
Part II. London, UK: Pickering and Chatto, 1997.
Feminist Pedagogy and Composition Theory (History, Theory, Practice)
ANTHOLOGIES
Caywood, Cynthia L., and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Teaching Writing: Pedagogy,
Gender, and Equity. Albany: State U of New York P, 1987.
Kirsch, Gesa E., Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, Mary P.
Sheridan-Rabideau, editors. Feminism and Composition: A Critical
Sourcebook. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003.
BOOK CHAPTERS
---. “Rhetoric in the Modern University: The Creation of an Underclass.” In Politics
of Writing Instruction: Post-Secondary. Eds. Richard Bullock and John
Trimbur. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991: 55-84.
Flynn, Elizabeth. “Composition from a Feminist Perspective.” In Politics of Writing
Instruction: Post-Secondary. Eds. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991: 137-54.
SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS
Grumet, Madeleine R. Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching. Amherst, MA: U of
Massachusetts P, 1988.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Connors, Robert. “Overwork/Underpay: Labor and Status of Composition Teachers
Since 1880.” Rhetoric Review 9.1 (1990): 108-25.
Kynell, Teresa. “Is Composition a Feminist Discipline?” The Writing Instructor.
(Spring/Summer 1993): 79-86.
Trachsel, Mary. “Nurturent Ethics and Academic Ideals: Convergence in the Writing
Center.” The Writing Center Journal 1995.
Reichert, Pegeen. “A Contributing Listener and Other Composition Wives: Reading
and Writing the Feminine Metaphors in Composition Studies.” Journal of
Advanced Composition (JAC) 16.1 (1996): 141-57.
Ritchie, Joy, and Kathleen Boardman. “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion,
Metonomy, and Disruption.” CCC 50.4 (1999): 585-606.
Women and Writing
Gannett, Cinthia. Gender and the Journal: Diaires and Academic Discourse. Albany,
NY: State U of New York P, 1992.
Graves, Heather Brodie. “Regrinding the Lens of Gender: Problematizing ‘Writing as a
Woman.’” Written Communication 10 (1993): 139-63.
Kirsch, Gesa E. Women Writing the Academy: Audience, Authority, and Transformation.
Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 1993.
Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Secret and Silence. NY: W.W. Norton, 1979.
Feminization and Rhetoric/Composition as a Profession
ANTHOLOGIES
Phelps, Louise Wetherbee, and Janet Emig, eds. Feminine Principles and Women’s
Experiences in American Composition and Rhetoric. 1995.
SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS
Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. NY: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux,
1998. Reprint (original published in 1977)
Sugg, Redding S., Jr. Motherteacher: The Feminization of American Education.
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale, IL:
Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
Enos, Theresa. Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition.
Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 1996.
Schell, Eileen E. Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor
and Writing Instruction. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Connors, Robert. “Chapter 1: Gender Influences: Composition-Rhetoric as an Irenic
Rhetoric.” In Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy.
PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 1997. 23-68.
Enos, Theresa. “Gender and Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition.” In
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Gary Olson and Todd Taylor.
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997: 57-72.
Enos, Theresa. “Mentoring—and (Wo)mentoriting—in Composition Studies.” In
Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication,
Promotion, Tenure. Eds. Richard C. Gebhardt and Barbara Genelle Smith
Gebhardt. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1996. 137-46.
Miller, Susan. “The Feminization of Composition.” In The Politics of Writing
Instruction: Post-Secondary. Eds. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991: 39-53.
Neulieb, Janice. “Special Challenges Facing Women in Personnel Review.” In
Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication,
Promotion, Tenure. Eds. Richard C. Gebhardt and Barbara Genelle Smith
Gebhardt. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1996. 129-36.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Enos, Theresa. “Gender and Journals: Conservors or Innovators?” Pre/Text 1988.
Holbrook, Sue Ellen. “Women’s Work: The Feminization of Composition.” Rhetoric
Review 9.2 (Spring 1991): 201-29.
Lauer, Janice. “The Feminization of Rhetoric and Composition Studies?” Rhetoric
Review 13.2 (Spring 1995): 276-86.
Bordelon, Suzanne. “Contradicting and Complicating Feminization of Rhetoric
Narratives: Mary Yost and Argument from a Sociological Perspective.”
Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Summer 2005): 101-24.