Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption

Fictive Museums and the Poetics of Mislabelling

“…Many concomitant attempts have been made to oppose metaphor and metonymy, mapping them on to one conceptual binary split or another. In the 1990s, for example, an intrinsic association between feminism and metonymy was suggested (see Ritchie and Boardman 1999). I will not attempt to detail Lakoff and Johnson's theories, nor the answering screed they provoked while transgressing various venerable academic provinces.…”

Chapter 13. Literacy, Praxis and Participation in Environmental Deliberation

“…When considering how to structure the course, I turned to Ritchie and Boardman's (1999) critical historical survey of feminism in composition. I acknowledge that using Ritchie and Boardman's exploration of feminism's presence in the discipline of composition to frame a literature course may seem odd, but as a compositionist teaching a literature course, I recognized that the course texts I had chosen functioned similarly to the publications and personal accounts Ritchie and Boardman cite, as each in its own way "sought inclusion and equality for women," illustrated feminism as a "'subterranean' unspoken presence," and resulted in "disruption and critique of hegemonic narratives" (p. 587), what has elsewhere been described as the three Rs: rescue, recovery, and (re)inscription (Royster and Kirsch,p.…”

Translingualism in Composition Studies and Second Language Writing: An Uneasy Alliance

“…She concluded by encouraging women to exercise the power that comes from difference. Ritchie andBoardman (1999/2011), similarly writing from a feminist perspective, also equated difference with originality. They identified three orientations that women have used to express their voices: women have written like men in order to be included, others have written about feminist concerns without explicitly connecting their issues to composition studies theory (establishing a metonymic or parallel relationship to the field), while others have written to disrupt traditional male texts.…”