Consciousness-raising as collective rhetoric: The articulation of experience in the redstockings' abortion speak-out of 1969 Academic Article

abstract

• This essay offers a theory of collective rhetoric derived from a case study of a central rhetorical event of the second wave of feminism, the Redstockings 1969 abortion speak-out. A central rhetorical function of consciousness-raising was the collective development of experiential knowledge, and I propose that collective rhetorics are characterized by the collaborative articulation of individual experiences through such rhetorical processes as narrative, irony and humor, and symbolic reversal. I conclude by discussing the importance of collective rhetorical processes in feminist contexts and the potential utility of a theory of collective rhetoric in understanding a range of contemporary discursive forms.

authors

• Dubriwny, Tasha

published proceedings

• QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Dubriwny, T. N.

citation count

• 39

complete list of authors

• Dubriwny, TN

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH  Journal

keywords

• Abortion
• Collective Rhetoric
• Consciousness-raising
• Experiential Epistemology
• Feminism

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/00335630500488275

start page

• 395

end page

• 422

volume

• 91

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335630500488275