The Sounds of Feminist Theory - Salvaggio, Ruth
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Reads a wide range of contemporary feminist theorists to show how they invest in sound as a medium of critical thought. In The Sounds of Feminist Theory, Ruth Salvaggio follows a distinctive turn toward the oral and evocative qualities of language in feminist theory. Questioning paradigms of female voice and varied feminist claims to language, she suggests that feminist theorists listen to the ways in which words mean more than they ostensibly signify, the ways in which language and epistemology -- like sound -- are mobile. She calls this theoretical project "Hearing the O", a process of…mehr

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Reads a wide range of contemporary feminist theorists to show how they invest in sound as a medium of critical thought. In The Sounds of Feminist Theory, Ruth Salvaggio follows a distinctive turn toward the oral and evocative qualities of language in feminist theory. Questioning paradigms of female voice and varied feminist claims to language, she suggests that feminist theorists listen to the ways in which words mean more than they ostensibly signify, the ways in which language and epistemology -- like sound -- are mobile. She calls this theoretical project "Hearing the O", a process of listening for and seizing those wavering qualities of language that invite changes, often remarkable alterations, in how we think.
Autorenporträt
Ruth Salvaggio is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Dryden's Dualities and Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine; and coeditor, with the Folger Collective on Early Women Critics, of Women Critics, 1660-1820.