Including Conservative Women’s Rhetorics in an “Ethics of Hope and Care”

Abstract

Charlotte Hoggaa Texas Christian UniversityCharlotte Hogg is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Texas Christian University. Her publications include From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community (U of Nebraska P, 2006), Rural Literacies, coauthored with Kim Donehower and Eileen E. Schell (SIUP, 2007), and Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy, coedited with Donehower and Schell (SIUP, 2012), and scholarly and creative work in Women and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century, Western American Literature, Great Plains Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Her current book project is on sorority rhetorics.The significant remapping of the rhetorical terrain within women’s rhetorical studies has created well-worn grooves toward the same destination: women participating in feminist endeavors in traditional, subtle, or surprising ways. Amid smart calls for and descriptions of expansiveness by feminist scholars, binary constructions of women as either feminist or not persist, perpetuating the practices we strive to dismantle and restricting possibilities for meaning-making, particularly with regard to conservative women who may not seek to empower themselves or others but still hold rhetorical sway. Employing Royster and Kirsch’s “ethics of hope and care” can bring opportunities for the field’s greater capaciousness.

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