ABSTRACT This essay explores how homeless women produce advocacy to gain full and substantive citizenship. Homeless women's attempts to gain recognition as full members of the society require them to transform lived experiences of trauma, exclusion, and loss into public arguments. Facing the intersection of civic exclusion by class and gender, homeless women are commonly viewed as welfare-dependent, irrational, and present-oriented, and are, therefore, considered the opposite of “good citizens.” Despite their legal citizenship, homeless women are essentially liminal citizens—their citizenship is lacking substantial political power and is thus barren. This essay explores how liminal citizens attempt to secure full citizenship by looking behind-the-scenes at their self-advocacy production process. Employing rhetorical field methods, the essay offers an interpretive reading of in-depth interviews with homeless women self-advocates and illuminates three aspects of the advocacy production process: recognizing the worth of the story; deciding to tell traumatic stories; and crafting the story. By unpacking the self-advocacy production process this essay animates the discussion about the mechanisms required to foster a deep and inclusive democracy from a rhetorical perspective.

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无家可归的女性自我倡导：从极限到完全公民身份的追求

摘要 本文探讨了无家可归的妇女如何进行宣传以获得完整和实质性的公民身份。无家可归的妇女试图获得社会正式成员的认可，要求她们将创伤、排斥和失去的生活经历转化为公开争论。面对阶级和性别的公民排斥，无家可归的妇女通常被视为依赖福利、不理性和注重现实，因此被认为是“好公民”的对立面。尽管拥有合法的公民身份，无家可归的妇女本质上是一种临界公民——她们的公民身份缺乏实质性的政治权力，因此是贫瘠的。这篇文章探讨了阈限公民如何通过观察他们的自我倡导产生过程的幕后来尝试获得完整的公民身份。采用修辞领域的方法，这篇文章提供了对无家可归女性自我倡导者的深入访谈的解释性阅读，并阐明了倡导过程的三个方面：认识到故事的价值；决定讲述创伤故事；并制作故事。通过解开自我倡导的生产过程，这篇文章从修辞的角度激发了关于培养深度和包容性民主所需机制的讨论。