ABSTRACT

This essay applies Craig Rood’s concept of rhetorical closure to the specific case study of the creation of feminist discourse communities to discuss sexuality. It looks at the editorial policies of two feminist discourse communities in order to more broadly analyze the ways that rhetorical closure operates constitutively along with invitational rhetoric. It connects these issues to past and current debates about censorship, echo chambers, safe spaces, and trigger warnings in order to show when and how rhetorical closure is intended to prevent harm. Like Rood, I do not resolve questions on distinguishing the effectiveness or ethics of rhetorical closure. Examining a radical feminist periodical of the nineteenth century and the twenty-first-century feminist blogosphere shows how invitational rhetoric works with and as rhetorical closure.

摘要

本文将克雷格·罗德（Craig Rood）的修辞封闭概念应用于创建讨论性问题的女性主义话语社区的特定案例研究。它着眼于两个女权主义话语社区的编辑政策，以便更广泛地分析修辞封闭与邀请修辞一起构成性地运作的方式。它将这些问题与过去和当前有关审查制度，回声室，安全空间和触发警告的辩论联系起来，以显示言辞封闭何时以及如何防止伤害。与Rood一样，我不会解决有关区分修辞封闭的有效性或道德标准的问题。考察19世纪激进的女权主义期刊和二十一世纪的女权主义博客圈，可以看出邀请性修辞学是如何与修辞学一起使用或作为修辞学封闭的。