Reviews for Feminist sociology

The average rating for Feminist sociology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-09 00:00:00 Julian Rankin Few of the scholars profiled in this text seemed to think of their work as rhetorical scholarship, so it really seems that Foss & Foss & Griffin were constructing rhetorical theory out of the insight of various feminist scholars. Sometimes I think it works, and sometimes I think it does not. Foss & Griffin went on the public an article on "invitational rhetoric," which they developed by contrasting the persuasive rhetoric's roots in patriarchal values with a selection of feminist values. I think that concept is fantastic, and I can see it developing in this book, but I think there is room to debate the feminist values they chose and their interpretations of the rhetorics which stem from those values. Generally, this book is probably worth a quick look, especially the chapter on Gearhart if you're not already familiar with her work. Then look into the Foss & Griffin article and Gearhart's work.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-22 00:00:00 Laura Wilson The theory is not not useful at all, but Weedon explains it and its influences in a way that is easy to understand and also tries to give practical examples, something other poststructuralist texts, even introductory ones, completely lack. The practise part is not any sort of activism but literary practise - which again is not useful in terms of struggle for liberation, but also very typical for poststructuralism and therefore a very honest approach.