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We've Only Just Begun: A Black Feminist Analysis of Eleanor Smeal's National Press Club Address

The voices of black women have traditionally been excluded from rhetorical scholarship, both as a subject of study and as a methodological approach. Despite the little attention black feminist thought has received, black women have long been articulating the unique intersection of oppressions they face and have been developing critical epistemologies.This study analyzes the National Press Club address given by NOW President Eleanor Smeal utilizing a black feminist methodological approach. The study constructs a black feminist theory for the communication discipline and applies it to a discursive artifact from the women's liberation movement. The implications of the study include the introduction of a new methodological approach to the communication discipline that can expand the liberatory reach of its scholarship.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2595
Date08 1900
CreatorsTate, Tara L.
ContributorsDeLoach, Mark, Gossett, John S., Bruner, Michael
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Tate, Tara L., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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