Re/dressing histories; or, on re/covering figures who have been laid bare by our gaze

Ballif, Michelle

doi:10.1080/02773949209390943

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“…Feminist rhetoric is a vague concept and is understood differently by different scholars. Some scholars within feminist rhetorical studies have sought to transform the rhetorical tradition from what is seen as upper-class, agonistic, public and male into regendered, inclusionary, dialogic and collaborative rhetoric (Ballif, 1992;Bizzell and Herzberg, 1990). Within the tradition of feminist rhetoric we use the notion of 'rhetoric of silence' that establishes a link between the co-optation of ideographs and silence, namely, what is silenced and left untouched when the co-opted ideographs are at work.…”

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Co-opting feminist voices for the war on terror: Laura Bush meets Nordic feminism

Lippe¹,

Väyrynen

2011

European Journal of Women's Studies

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The article analyses Finland’s and Norway’s female politicians’ war rhetoric with reference to the war in Afghanistan and contrasts it with Laura Bush’s rhetoric and feminism. In the Nordic countries the strong liberal and equity tradition of feminism could open up spaces for thinking differently about war, and yet the co-optation of hegemonic war rhetoric occurs in several ways. The ideograph ‘women-and-children’ is often evoked and added to the hegemonic foreign policy rhetoric without questioning the actual rhetorical work it does. Gender-neutral rhetoric is used to hail into being a collective and unitary western do-gooder identity and to distance Nordic involvement from the US ‘war on terror’. The panegyric of UN Resolution 1325 facilitates the metamorphosis of the militaristic and masculine US-led NATO into a collective peacekeeper capable of saving ‘brown women from brown men’.

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Section: Rhetoric Of Gendered Silencementioning

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Co-opting feminist voices for the war on terror: Laura Bush meets Nordic feminism

Lippe¹,

Väyrynen

2011

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…Whether one wishes to do so is, however, open to question. As we attempt to write women into history, Michelle Ballif (1992) asks the relevant question: "Are we not, then, merely making Woman into a legitimate coin, a proper currency, a respectable asset, but without questioning the very standard-the phallogocentric standard of Truth-that finds her lacking, that is responsible for her devaluation?" (p. 91).…”

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Corporeality and cultural rhetoric: A site for rhetoric's future

McKerrow

1998

Southern Communication Journal

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Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni

Kinloch¹

2022

Byz. Mod. Greek stud.

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One of the defining features of the Byzantine historiographical tradition is the dominant narrative roles played by emperors and, in the later period, by Ottoman sultans. This article explores this characteristic feature of the tradition through comparative analysis of the structuring roles occupied by such characters in the fifteenth-century History of Doukas and the protagonistic role of the Florentine people in the contemporary History of the Florentine People by Leonardo Bruni. Transhistorical comparison, organized around two case studies, serves to denaturalize the roles played by emperors and sultans in both Byzantine and modern historiography.

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Re/dressing histories; or, on re/covering figures who have been laid bare by our gaze

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Co-opting feminist voices for the war on terror: Laura Bush meets Nordic feminism

Co-opting feminist voices for the war on terror: Laura Bush meets Nordic feminism

Corporeality and cultural rhetoric: A site for rhetoric's future

Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni

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