In the 'old days' people who wanted to preach or make a public speech about something would haul a soapbox into the middle of the street, climb on, and start talking. I think soapboxes must have been more sturdy back then. Nowadays, we just use webpages. Here's my contribution to that tradition.
For other writing, see my Blog and my Journal. I'm not sure what the difference is between a blog and a journal. Maybe it's the line length. Maybe blogs have links and journals don't. When I figure it out, I will let you know.
A
brief essay on the Feminist Public Sphere
discusses two forms
of feminist discourse, the confessional and "not speaking for others"
and argues that these two forms erode public discourse and feminist
politics.
A
book review of Donna Haraway's book,
Modest Witness, published
in Hypatia. This book review was coauthored with Ingrid Bartsch, who is
a plant biologist, and Carolyn DiPalma, who is a political theorist. It
took
three of us together to make sense of the book. Gosh, Donna's so smart.
Critical Public Address that Josh
and I wrote and I delivered at the Public Address Pre-conference in
Chicago, 2003. In this paper we try to resurrect the oratorical root of
public address studies. It's a hoot. Read it if you're into PA stuff.
The Southern Phoenix: Women's Voice and
the Sexual Politics of Louisiana's Old State Capitol. This is a
DRAFT of a project I am working on. I delivered this paper to SSCA in
April 2002. I talk about the way that the building erases women's
real world political accomplishments while it foregrounds stereotypes
about southern women.
