Teaching Rhetorica

Instructors of composition and women's studies explore the rhetoric of recent women writers and its implications for teaching rhetoric. Their topics include the rhetorics of radical feminist pedagogy 1968-75, womanist rhetoric and black feminist pedagogy in the writing classroom, and feminist interruptions of critical pedagogy rhetorics. There is no index. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kate Ronald is the Roger and Joyce L. Howe Professor of English at Miami University, where she teaches composition and rhetoric and directs the Howe Writing Initiative in the School of Business. She and Joy Ritchie have taught and written together for the last fifteen years. Their most recent collaboration, the impetus for Teaching Rhetorica, was Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s).Joy Ritchie is Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She teaches writing and rhetoric, English education, and women's studies. She and Kate Ronald have taught and written together for the last fifteen years. Their most recent collaboration, the impetus for Teaching Rhetorica, was Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s).