tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693738848429710464.post5084147786693867196..comments2024-03-29T03:16:00.896-04:00Comments on Girl with Pen: Men, Power, Speaking Up, and Speaking OutUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693738848429710464.post-33873082154340630682008-01-04T16:34:00.000-05:002008-01-04T16:34:00.000-05:00Thanks for the book p/reviews.On Obama besting Cli...Thanks for the book p/reviews.<BR/><BR/>On Obama besting Clinton in Iowa, Jim Aune at The Blogora thinks its all rhetoric. The one has a <A HREF="http://rsa.cwrl.utexas.edu/?q=node/1897" REL="nofollow">"winning formula"</A> while the other <A HREF="http://rsa.cwrl.utexas.edu/?q=node/1899" REL="nofollow">"can't give a decent speech."</A> <BR/><BR/>So Jim gets us re-reading Karlyn Kohrs Campbell's essay in the first issue of <I>Rhetoric & Public Affairs</I>: "The Discursive Performance of Femininity: Hating Hillary." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1 (1998): 1-20.<BR/><BR/>Karlyn says "<I>Hillary Rodham Clinton's style of public advocacy typically omits all of the discursive markers by which women publicly enact their femininity. Her tone is usually impersonal . . . her ideas unfold deductively . . . all kinds of evidence is used. . . . she is impassioned but very rarely emotional. . . . [She is unable to] feminize her rhetorical style, to perform a culturally defined feminine role publicly. . . . [while her audiences have a] failure to appreciate [her true power to persuade]. . . . If we reject all those who lack the feminizing skills of an Elizabeth Hanford Dole, we shall deprive ourselves of a vast array of talent</I>" (pages 1, 6, 15).<BR/><BR/>Do Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards need feminizing skills of Ms. Dole? Why does Ms. Clinton have to have them?<BR/><BR/>What do other readers at Girl with Pen think?J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com