Negotiating the Differend: A Feminist Trilogue

Abstract

Michelle: Imagine that you enter a writes Kenneth Burke. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion {Philosophy 110). With this metaphor, Burke sets the stage for the so-called linguistic turn of late twentieth century thought. This Burke suggests, is the rhetorical world in which we find ourselves, debating, conversing, and creating knowledge. The discursive and communal scene is constructed as a parlor, which connotes warmth and solidarity and indeed projects a cozy world of human dialogue (Gane 65). This metaphor has been embraced by many feminist theorists who claim that such a rhetorical style replicates female ways of speaking and that the cozy scene mirrors feminine ways of nurturing (see Brody; Lamb; Gearhart; Ruddick; and Flynn).1

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