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Resisting whiteness' rhetorical silence
- C. Crenshaw
- Sociology
- 1 September 1997
This essay explores the rhetorical dimensions of whiteness in public political discourse from an ideological perspective. It analyzes a debate between Carolyn Moseley Braun and Jesse Helms over a…
Women in the Gulf War: Toward an intersectional feminist rhetorical cristicism
- C. Crenshaw
- Art
- 1 July 1997
In this essay, I argue that an expanded version of critical legal scholar Kimberle Williams Crenshaw's “intersectionality thesis”; supplies a rewarding model for feminist rhetorical criticism. Her ...
The “protection” of “woman”: A history of legal attitudes toward women's workplace freedom
- C. Crenshaw
- Sociology
- 1 February 1995
This essay argues that current symbols can be attitudinally united with historical symbols despite seeming dissimilarities in their construction. This thesis is illustrated by a comparative analysis…
The Normality of Man and Female Otherness: (Re)Producing Patriarchal Lines of Argument in the Law and the News.
- C. Crenshaw
- Sociology
- 22 March 1996
A distinguishing feature of feminist inquiry in every discipline is its political commitment to resisting patriarchal modes of thought and action. So while an assortment of feminist scholarship…
Rhetoric, Racist Ideology, and Intellectual Leadership
- C. Crenshaw, D. Roskos-Ewoldsen
- Sociology
- 24 June 2010
Despite gains in the struggle for civil rights in the late twentieth century, racism still ravages individual lives and causes savage societal inequities.1 Stuart Hall has argued that racism is…