Author: Karma R. Chavez File Type: pdf Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another. Building on the decades of work by women of color and allied feminists, Standing in the Intersection is the first book in more than a decade to bring communication studies and feminist intersectional theories in conversation with one another. The authors in this collection take up important conversations relating to notions of style, space, and audience, and engage with the rhetoric of significant figures, including Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Jordan, Emma Goldman, and Audre Lorde, as well as crucial contemporary issues such as campus activism and political asylum. In doing so, they ask us to complicate notions of space, location, and movement to be aware of and explicit with regard to our theorizing of intersecting and contradictory identities and to think about the impact of multiple dimensions of power in understanding audiences and audiencing. If a new generation of scholars embraces intersectional perspectives as personal as well as scholarly outlooks, then the future of feminist communication research will be substantively different from its past, and every back story entailed in that research, each feminist researchers lived experience, will be affirming and empowering. This is the transformative potential entailed in this book, and I look forward to seeing it realized. -from the Foreword by Marsha Houston This collection provides a concentrated focus on rhetoric and intersectionality that is a valuable resource for critics as well as a point of departure for additional criticism. It also offers a new set of feminist rhetorical studies-something overdue in communication studies. -Alberto Gonzalez, coeditor of Our Voices Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, Fifth Edition **Review This powerful collection [is] a unique, valuable resource Highly recommended. CHOICE If a new generation of scholars embraces intersectional perspectives as personal as well as scholarly outlooks, then the future of feminist communication research will be substantively different from its past, and every back story entailed in that research, each feminist researcher s lived experience, will be affirming and empowering. This is the transformative potential entailed in this book, and I look forward to seeing it realized. from the Foreword by Marsha Houston This collection provides a concentrated focus on rhetoric and intersectionality that is a valuable resource for critics as well as a point of departure for additional criticism. It also offers a new set of feminist rhetorical studies something overdue in communication studies. Alberto Gonzalez, coeditor of Our Voices Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, Fifth Edition If a new generation of scholars embraces intersectional perspectives as personal as well as scholarly outlooks, then the future of feminist communication research will be substantively different from its past, and every back story entailed in that research, each feminist researcher s lived experience, will be affirming and empowering. This is the transformative potential entailed in this book, and I look forward to seeing it realized. from the Foreword by Marsha Houston Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate innovative ways by which rhetorical and feminist scholars may better understand the complexities of identity, audience, and discourse. Rhetoric and Public Affairs This powerful collection [is] a unique, valuable resource Highly recommended. CHOICE This collection provides a concentrated focus on rhetoric and intersectionality that is a valuable resource for critics as well as a point of departure for additional criticism. It also offers a new set of feminist rhetorical studies something overdue in communication studies. Alberto Gonzalez, coeditor of Our Voices Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, Fifth Edition About the Author Karma R. Chavez is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of WisconsinMadison.

Author: Georg Simmel File Type: pdf First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as What do we see in a work of Art? and What do Rembrandts portraits tell us about human nature? This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the worlds most important painters. **

Author: Raz Chen-Morris File Type: pdf In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Keplers Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Keplers radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Keplers ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them. **

Author: G. Bruce Boyer File Type: pdf From choosing the right pair of eyeglasses to properly coordinating a tie, shirt, and pocket square, getting dressed is an art to be mastered. Yet how many of us just throw on, well, whatever in the morning? How many understand the subtleties of selecting the right pair of shoelaces or the most compatible patterns--much less the history, imperatives, and importance of our choices? In True Style, fashion expert G. Bruce Boyer provides a crisp, indispensable primer for this daily ritual, cataloguing the essential elements of the male wardrobe and showing how best to employ them. Detailing the evolution of the most classic items and traditions in menswear--from fabrics like denim and linen, to staples like blazers and button-down shirts, to the rules for combining them all--Boyer reveals what true style looks like, and why.