Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition

Ballif, Michelle; Davis, Diane; Mountford, Roxanne

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“…In doing so, the editors hope that new teachers will feel less alone as they encounter bumps along the way. Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition (Ballif, Davis, and Mountford 2008) Copyrighted material, not for distribution and personal locations. And beyond the permeable edges of writing studies as a field, narrative or storytelling is a trusted method in sociology, medicine, and interdisciplinary contexts, one that strives to complexify the landscape within which officials, advocates, and communities make decisions.…”

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Losses, Leavings, Remakings: An Afterword

Restaino

2024

Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making

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Is this really about revision?Early in our work on this volume, we had accepted abstracts that looked to be exactly what we asked for: reflections on revision. However, as the chapters began rolling in, they seemed also-in some cases quite prominently-to be reflections on collaboration, or composition, or identity configuration, or professional maneuvering. We loved the stories contributing authors were telling. They took us off the page, showing us children interrupting the scene of revising a grant to ask questions about God's gender (Wallis-Thomas), a faculty of color detailing injurious mistreatment to recast a whitewashed narrative of their resignation (Martinez), a student-teacher collaborative approach to a traditionally top-down practice, drafting a letter of recommendation (Becker, Blewett, and Sohan). But, were these stories really about revision?We began to question the assumptions we had brought into this project about how the moves of revision can be made visible. When we wrote the CFP, we thought "bits of or clips from actual text(s) in progress" would capture observable data, trace action in a scene, record activity in and around writing. Yet we began to recognize that the experiences of revising relayed by contributors often didn't "stay put" or cohere around demonstrable examples. Revision wasn't limited to textual change; it became a life activity, immersed in conversation, family life, collaboration, identity formation, years of thinking and rethinking, moments of conflict and resolution, problem-solving, political and social upheaval. Like air, revision seemed to fill all available space.As the five of us talked on Zoom about the chapter submissions and emerging book (originally subtitled "Showing and Narrating Revision in Action"), we began to accept that seeing revision in action isn't as simple and transparent a task as showing "bits or clips" would suggest. Just as revision moves, so too did our expectations as we took direction from our contributors, whose work urged us to honor revision's vitality

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Losses, Leavings, Remakings: An Afterword

Restaino

2024

Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making

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“…'Myth and tale' metaphors are certainly fascinating. Notwithstanding their 'predictable narrative thread', 'traditional depictions of gender' have a 'palpable fairy tale appeal' (Kinney 2009: 151; see also Ballif et al, 2008). Prominent psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim suggested that fairy tales and myths 'help readers see themselves in stories of conflict, and thus move them closer to naming their anxieties' (Bettelheim, 1976, cited in Kinney 2009 151; also see Dundes, 1980).…”

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“…Cinderella (Dowling, 1981;Yoder, 1991;Tripp-Knowles, 1995) The Fairy Godmother (Harris et al, 2013) Witch (Fisher, 2007) Alice (Patterson, 1971;Chouinard, 1995;McMillan and Price, 2010;Netolicky et al, 2018) Snow White (Trahar, 2019) Queen Bee (Ellemers et al, 2004;Mavin, 2006;Kinney, 2009;Cummins, 2012;Mansingh and Khan 2020) Princess (Griffin, 2003;Williams, 2005) Crown Prince (Still, 1986;Pullan and Abendstern, 2018) Pollyanna (Ferree and Zippel, 2015) Intellectual Frankenstein (Palmieri, 1995;Netolicky et al, 2018) Superwoman (Suspitsina, 2010) Wonder Woman (Martimianakis, 2008;Bozzon et al, 2017) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Netolicky et al, 2018) Glass slippers (Skordaki, 1996;Ashcraft, 2013) The Kingdom (Harris et al, 2013) The Queendom (of Queen Bee) (Ballif et al, 2008) Candied cottage (Barnard, 2019) Vampire (greedy institution) (Kroll, 2006) The academic twilight zone (Cheng, 2005;Kroll, 2006) Kissing the frog (Griffin, 2003) Witches' coven (Fisher, 2007) Seeking Yoda (Hutchinson, 2002) Sagas, mythology, religious imagery Iron maiden (Kanter, 1977) Mermaid (Anderson, 2008) Cassandra …”

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Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors

Moratti

2021

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture a

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The language we use reveals that. This paper is a meta-reflection problematising the literary and symbolic images, or metaphors, used in white papers, in the scholarly literature and the media to refer to the professional lives and experiences of women academics (Amery et al., 2015;Moratti, 2018). I situate my investigation within the gender, work and organisations scholarship discussing metaphors on women in organisations (Bendl and Schmidt, 2010;Smith et al., 2012;Kemp, 2016). The imagery we invoke brings in implicit meaning (Goatly, 2007; Zinken and Mulsolff, 2009) and conveys a particular interpretation of the nature of the professional hindrances that women encounter. The question has been discussed in the feminist literature with highly interdisciplinary and original approaches, following the 'linguistic turn' in feminist studies (Tolmach-Lakoff, 1973;Spender, 1980) and drawing on the seminal works by linguist George Lakoff (Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, 1987) and business theorist Gareth Morgan (Images of Organizations, 1986). Feminist scholars have produced an impressive body of knowledge and the use of metaphors on women in work organisations is now an important topic in feminism, but surprisingly not (yet) a core one. Key texts such as the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (2016) and the Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations (2014) do not include a dedicated chapter on metaphor use. Even more remarkably, the word 'metaphor' is not listed in the index of either handbook. The indexes go into a considerable level of detail and respectively include 'men's rights movement' and 'merit', the latter encompassing as many as nine sub-entries (Kumra et al., 2014; Disch and Hawkesworth, 2018). However, the investigation of metaphor use is fertile intellectual terrain affording exceptional opportunities for creative and methodologically original inquiry leading to theoretical insights.

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“Backwards and in High Heels”: The Invisibility and Underrepresentation of Femme(inist) Administrative Labor in Academia

Inayatulla

Robinson

2019

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition

Cited by 6 publications

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Losses, Leavings, Remakings: An Afterword

Losses, Leavings, Remakings: An Afterword

Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors

“Backwards and in High Heels”: The Invisibility and Underrepresentation of Femme(inist) Administrative Labor in Academia

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