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A Forum on Neurorhetorics: Conscious of the Past, Mindful of the Future Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 David R. Gruber, Wendy K. Z. Anderson, Michelle Gibbons, Jordynn Jack, Chris Mays, Tyler Snelling, Paige Welsh, Eli Wilson
Fourteen years after the special issue on neuroscience and rhetoric in this journal (Neurorhetorics, vol. 40, no. 5), we turn back and look forward. We assess what has been accomplished in neurorhe...
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What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Sierra S. Parker
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Dylan Annandale
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Joshua Trey Barnett
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Democracy’s End: Far-Right Fundamentalism and the Rhetoric of R. J. Rushdoony Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Jonathan J. Edwards
R. J. Rushdoony was the founder of the “Christian Reconstructionist” movement. This movement combines Neo-Calvinism, economic libertarianism, and optimistic apocalypticism, envisioning the collapse...
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Ambient Engineering: Hyper-Nudging, Hyper-Relevance, and Rhetorics of Nearness and Farness in a Post-AI Algorithmic World Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Thomas Rickert
This essay argues that algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) are producing a transformation in the economics of attention. Attention is a limited concept, a point I demonstrate by providing a...
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Conspiracy Theater of the Absurd: “Birds Aren’t Real” as Parodic Hypermimesis Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Ryan Neville-Shepard, Meredith Neville-Shepard
Emerging from an ad hoc effort to counter Trump supporters at a 2017 Women’s March, the Birds Aren’t Real movement has transformed from viral performance art into a Gen Z response to political cons...
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Dedication Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 S. Scott Graham, Zoltan P. Majdik
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2024)
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Rhetoric of/with AI: An Introduction Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Zoltan P. Majdik, S. Scott Graham
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2024)
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The Self-ish Gene: Retroactive Tropes in Richard Dawkins’s Evolutionary Logic Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Oren M. Abeles
Building on recent developments in Lacanian rhetorical criticism, this essay demonstrates how contemporary evolutionary theory posits genetic determinism without a clear definition of the gene. It ...
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Distant Readings of Disciplinarity: Knowing and Doing in Composition/Rhetoric Dissertations Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Bill Hart-Davidson
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2024)
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Is Genre Enough? A Theory of Genre Signaling as Generative AI Rhetoric Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Ryan Omizo, Bill Hart-Davidson
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that excels at generating text and public controversy. Upon its release, many marveled at its ability to author intelligible and generically respons...
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Sex after Technology: The Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps and the Reversal of Roe v. Wade Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Kem-Laurin Lubin, Randy Allen Harris
The convergence of artificial intelligence technologies with the growth of Christo-fascist movements in the United States presents an alarming threat to women’s health, especially considering known...
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The Rhetorical Possibilities of Communicative Time Travel Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Emma Bedor Hiland
Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, provides a unique opportunity to reexamine how affect, memory, authenticity, embodiment, and authorship are conceptualized and discussed in...
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A Copious Void: Rhetoric as Artificial Intelligence 1.0 Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Atilla Hallsby
Rhetoric is a trace retained in and by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This concept illuminates how rhetoric and AI have faced issues related to information abundance, entrenched social ...
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This Is Not a Response Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Casey Boyle
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2024)
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Pathological Liars: Algorithmic Knowing in the Rhetorical Ecosystem of Wallstreetbets Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Misti H. Yang, Zoltan P. Majdik
This essay demonstrates the value of using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to address specific kinds of research questions in rhetoric. The essay builds on a study of a novel rhetorical o...
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The Doctor and the Algorithm: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Health AI Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Christa Teston
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2024)
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A Study in Revolution Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Hannah Hopkins
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2024)
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Tilling Topoi within the Creole Garden Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jason Kalin, Diane Marie Keeling
This article reroutes the more radical tendrils of the commonplace by pursuing Christa J. Olson’s call for questioning the “terrain of rhetoric.” We ask: What if commonplaces and the commonality th...
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No Lives Matter: Resisting Nihilism, Recuperating the Human Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kevin Musgrave
Taking the slogan “no lives matter” as a starting point to diagnose the nihilism of our contemporary political culture, in this essay I tie the rise of nihilism to the resurgence of far-right polit...
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This Isn’t McCloskey’s Rhetoric of Economics: New Thoughts on Economic Rhetorics Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Catherine Chaput
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2024)
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Decentering the Patent: Opportunities to Reframe American Innovation Rhetorics Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Sarah Hallenbeck
Rhetoricians have long critiqued gendered (Gurak; Koerber) and racial (Banks; Haas) biases in rhetorics of science and technology. However, we have yet to fully consider how the patent, as a genre,...
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Rhetoric in Debt Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 James Rushing Daniel
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2024)
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Depression and Drama in Augustine of Hippo’s Rhetorical Imaginary Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Curry Kennedy
Studies of Augustine’s rhetoric have been focused on the De doctrina christiana and the Confessions. As a result, these studies have been restricted to questions of Augustine’s reception of Greco-R...
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Correction Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-16
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2024)
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Thinkings-Out-Loud: An Introductory Manifest Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jenny Rice
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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White Tears Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jennifer Lin LeMesurier
In this article, I explore the rhetorical deployment of White tears, tears that are circulated within narratives of interracial conflict as evidence for the rightness of White supremacist norms. Mo...
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The World Has Ended, Long Live Worlds: Rhetoric at the Limit of Humanness Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nathan Stormer
The “end of the world” trope can be rote in popular culture, but its critical deployment is not so and exposes something about rhetoric’s relationship to humanness and to humanism, which is that th...
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Aporia in Barack Obama’s 2016 Dallas Police Memorial Speech Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kenneth Zagacki, Chandra A. Maldonado
On 13 July 2016, President Barack Obama delivered a speech memorializing five police officers slain during a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas, Texas. Obama’s speech came on the heels of many oth...
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The Unbearable Obliqueness of Rhetoric Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Casey Boyle
This short essay explores oblique approaches to rhetorical theory and practice and, in doing so, accidently arrives at a renewed appreciation of Aesthetics.
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Book Review Introduction Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nathaniel Rivers
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Donald Trump Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 T. Kenny Fountain
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Democracy as Fetish Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Azadeh Ghanizadeh
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nancy R. Gómez Arrieta
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Reconsidering Kairos through the Gendered History of Weaving Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jordynn Jack, Emma M. Duvall
Scholars have often noted that the Greek rhetorical term, kairos, relates etymologically to weaving. However, many accounts of this connection overlook the weaving technology used in ancient Greece...
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Exigence at the Dawn of Recommendation Media: Dramatizing Salience in Audio Memes Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Noah Roderick
This article looks at how exigence is made publicly observable in user-based media operating on recommendation algorithms. Messaging in these rhetorical environments often takes the form of imitati...
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We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Crystal Broch Colombini
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Cadaverous Rhetorics and Affective Regulation at the Anatomical Museum Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 S. Scott Graham
This article explores cadaverous rhetorics with a focus on public displays of human remains at anatomical museums. The article has two primary components: First, it advances a theory of cadaverous ...
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Making the Lover’s Leap: Wenonah, Rhetorical Colonialism, and Dissociative Memory(-)Work Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Adam Gaffey
This essay analyzes a display of Wenonah and the “Lover’s Leap” in Winona, Minnesota, as an example of dissociative memory(-)work. Applying dissociation to the organization of commemorative space, ...
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Transforming Confederate Memory Sites into Spaces for Encounter: Reclaiming Space at Marcus-David Peters Circle Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Kelly Williams Nagel
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police in May 2020, cities across the United States erupted in protest. These public displays reignited debates over the presence of Confederate ...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Playing: Aural Body Rhetoric in the Music of Horace Parlan and Paul Wittgenstein Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Bill Heinze, Atilla Hallsby
This essay examines the lives of two pianists with significant impairments of their right arms: Paul Wittgenstein, a classical pianist who lost his right arm in World War I, and Horace Parlan, a ja...
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“Our Hidden Revenge”: Anti/Colonial Rhetorics at a Korean Women’s College Graduation, 1918 Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Nathan Tillman
This article explores rhetorics connected to the 1918 graduation of Korea’s first women’s college. The study examines textual and visual archives from the early 1900s to 1965, drawing on scholarshi...
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Toxic Contamination and Land-Body Relations: Storytelling, Metaphor, and Topoi at the Former Badger Army Ammunition Plant Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Kassia Shaw
The former Badger Army Ammunition Plant in rural southern Wisconsin has long been a landscape mired in settler colonial and industrial attempts to sever social and cultural relations between land a...
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“It’s Just Business”: Michael Jackson’s Purchase of the Beatles Catalog as Counterpunch, Copia, and Rhythmic Reparations Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 K. Shannon Howard
According to Black Twitter community members, who were active online just after rock ‘n’ roll artist Little Richard’s passing in 2020, Michael Jackson’s purchase of the Beatles catalog (thirty-five...
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Strategic Linguistic Choices within the Swedish Disability Movement: Practical Reasoning, Agency, and Antiableist Challenges Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Mats Landqvist
This essay examines how the Swedish disability movement creates policies involving naming practices as a means for self-presentation. The study takes its departure from two kinds of empirical data:...
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Epideictic Listening: From a Reflective Case Study to a Theory of Community Ethos Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Sarah Hart Micke, Angela Sowa, Lisl Davies, Emily Graboski, Maya Piñón
Inspired by challenges we faced in an undergraduate community-literacy cohort, we theorize “epideictic listening” as an important concept for articulating the range of listening strategies necessar...
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Similaic Eroticism and Polymorphic Sexuality Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Nitzan Familia
This article performs a psycho-rhetorical reading of the generalized theorization and specific application of simile in classical and early modern rhetorical treatises and in Shakespeare’s similaic...
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What Is the Church? Defining Communal Commonplaces in the Pennsylvania State Statute of Limitations Debate Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Allison Niebauer
What exactly is the Church? Is it primarily an institution? Or is it the people in its pews? And depending on the answer, what obligations do the people who constitute it in the present have toward...
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Response from Jessica Enoch Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Jessica Enoch
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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Jessica Enoch’s “Suffrage Statuary and Commemorative Accountability” (RSQ 53.2) Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Myriam Miedzian, Gary Ferdman
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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The Circle of Life: Rhetoric, Rectification, and Recreation at Steele Indian School Park Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Kathleen S. Lamp, Emily Robinson
Steele Indian School Park (2001), a city park in Phoenix, Arizona, serves as the memory site for the Phoenix Indian School (1891–1990), an off-reservation boarding school that was part of the feder...
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Transnational Rhetorical Circulation in the Splinternet Age Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Zhaozhe Wang
The splinternet continues to chip away at transnationally networked publics and reconfigure the digital landscape along national borders. What would a fractured cyberspace mean for conceptualizing ...
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Escaping the Prison House of Effects: The Persistence of an Anachronism in Rhetoric Studies Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 John Arthos
Persuasive effect will always be an essential part of rhetoric studies, but it should not be either its ready shorthand, identifying trait, or lodestar. The decades-long momentum to move beyond the...
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Rhetoric and/of the Common(s) Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 E. Johanna Hartelius
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 3, 2023)
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The (Under)Commons across the Américas: Connecting Spaces for Fugitivity and Futurity Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Stacey K. Sowards
ABSTRACT This essay examines how the concepts of enclaves, satellites (Squires), and undercommons (Harney and Moten) intersect in ways that create space for fugitivity, anticolonial thinking, and futurity. Enclaves and satellites can function as a place of hiding to protect radical gestures, ideas, and activism, whereas the undercommons work as spaces to upend institutions, organizations, and cultures
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The Long Speech: Rhetorical Abundance in Circulation Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Matthew deTar, Erik Johnson
This essay analyzes excessively long speeches in order to argue that circulation naturalizes rhetorical processes that govern meaning within texts. In our view, abundant acts of address unsettle do...
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Epideictic Distance: The Complacent Publics of Environmental Rephotography Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Jacob Greene
In this article, I argue that an epideictic approach to climate rephotography may produce what Jenny Rice has referred to as “exceptional” public subjectivities by encouraging audiences to further ...
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With Love from San Antonio: Settler Souvenir Postals and Mass Reproductions of “Mexicans” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Sierra Mendez
The persuasive power of souvenir postal cards has been overlooked in scholarship. This essay examines how settlers in San Antonio, at the turn of the twentieth century, used souvenir postal cards s...
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Ticking Clocks: Rhetorics of Tenure and (In)Fertility Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Steph Ceraso, Pamela VanHaitsma
This essay initiates a critical conversation about (in)fertility in academia. We argue that four patterns of discourse exacerbate the challenges for women and trans* academics struggling to conceiv...