Epilogue

• Published in: Occupying Our Space p. 204
• Main Author: CRISTINA DEVEREAUX RAMÍREZ
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 02.04.2015
• Subjects: American studies; Anthropology; Artists; Behavioral sciences; Communications; Comparative politics; Discourse; Discourse analysis; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Ethnography; Ethnology; Femininity; Feminism; Gender identity; Gender studies; Gendered discourse; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; Labor economics; Latin American literature; Latin American politics; Latin American studies; Occupations; Political communication; Political rhetoric; Political science; Political sociology; Rhetoric; Semiotics; Social sciences; Womens history; Writers; Writing; Written communication
• ISBN: 9780816530748; 0816530742

Cheryl Glenn reminds us inRhetoric Retoldthat our histories must do something. As Glenn contends, feminist rhetorical historiographies challenge the male-dominated stories of rhetoric. Beyond challenging the normative stories, what does this feminist recovery project do? Bringing these women’s voices into the conversation of feminist rhetorical historiographies serves as a decolonizing force that is emerging in rhetorical studies. In the years spent charting this rhetorical map of Mexican women journalists and activists, I have come to believe that the act of the author-researcher writing herself into being resides within the interstices of feminist historiography. These histories of Mexican women