Standing in the Intersection

Winnerof the 2013 Best Edited Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)

Building on the decades of work by women of color and allied feministsStanding in the Intersection is the first book in more than a decade to bring communication studies and feminist intersectional theories in conversation with one another. The authors in this collection take up important conversations relating to notions of style, space, and audience, and engage with the rhetoric of significant figures, including Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Jordan, Emma Goldman, and Audre Lorde, as well as crucial contemporary issues such as campus activism and political asylum. In doing so, they ask us to complicate notions of space, location, and movement; to be aware of and explicit with regard to our theorizing of intersecting and contradictory identities; and to think about the impact of multiple dimensions of power in understanding audiences and audiencing.

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Difficult Dialogues: Intersectionality as Lived Experience
Marsha Houston

Introduction: Standing at the Intersections of Feminisms, Intersectionality, and Communication Studies
Cindy L. Griffin and Karma R. Chávez

PART I: ENTERING THE INTERSECTION

1. Mammies and Matriarchs: Feminine Style and Signifyin(g) in Carol Moseley Braun’s 2003–2004 Campaign for the Presidency
Shanara Rose Reid-Brinkley

2. The Intersectional Style of Free Love Rhetoric
Kate Zittlow Rogness

3. (Im)mobile Metaphors: Toward an Intersectional Rhetorical History
Carly S. Woods

4. Placing Sex/Gender at the Forefront: Feminisms, Intersectionality, and Communication Studies
Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein

PART II: AUDIENCES AND AUDIENCING

5. Intersecting Audiences: Public Commentary Concerning Audre Lorde’s Speech, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”
Lester C. Olson

6. Constitutive Intersectionality and the Affect of Rhetorical Form
Leslie A. Hahner

7. Spheres of Influence: The Intersections of Feminism and Transnationalism in Betty Millard’sWoman Against Myth
Jennifer Keohane

8. Essentialism, Intersectionality and Recognition: A Feminist Rhetorical Approach to the Audience
Sara L. McKinnon

Contributors
Index