Abstract

The significant remapping of the rhetorical terrain within women’s rhetorical studies has created well-worn grooves toward the same destination: women participating in feminist endeavors in traditional, subtle, or surprising ways. Amid smart calls for and descriptions of expansiveness by feminist scholars, binary constructions of women as either feminist or not persist, perpetuating the practices we strive to dismantle and restricting possibilities for meaning-making, particularly with regard to conservative women who may not seek to empower themselves or others but still hold rhetorical sway. Employing Royster and Kirsch’s “ethics of hope and care” can bring opportunities for the field’s greater capaciousness.

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