Feminist Technical Communication: Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
- Writing StudiesFeminismTechnical CommunicationGender Studies
- Categories:Education Theory Media & Communications Social Sciences
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:January,2023
- Pages:204
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Review
—Ja’La Wourman, James Madison University
“A novel contribution to feminist philosophy in technical communication, writing, and beyond.”
—Avery Edenfield, Utah State University
Description
The first book to situate feminisms and technical communication in relationship as the focal point, Feminist Technical Communication traces the thread of feminisms through technical communication’s connection to social justice studies. Clark theorizes “slow crisis,” a concept made readable to technical communicators by apparent feminisms that can help technical communicators readily recognize and address social justice problems. Clark then applies this framework to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, an extended crisis that has been publicly framed by a traditional view of efficiency that privileges economic impact. Through rich description of apparent feminist information-gathering techniques and a layered analysis, this study offers application far beyond this single disaster, making available new crisis-response possibilities that consider the economy without eliding ecological and human health concerns.
Feminist Technical Communication offers a methodological approach to the systematic interrogation of power structures that operate on hidden misogynies. This book will be useful to technical communicators, scholars of technical communication and rhetoric, readers interested in gender studies and public health, and is an ideal text for graduate-level seminars focused on feminisms, social justice, and cultural studies.
Author
Erin Clark is associate professor of English at East Carolina University. She is coeditor of Interrogating Gendered Pathologies, and her work centering issues of gender and feminism in technical communication has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly, Computers and Composition, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Rhetoric Review, Technical Communication Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, Peitho, and Present Tense.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: On Positionality and Inclusion
1. Feminist Technical Communication
2. Apparent Feminisms
3. Slow Crisis
4. Disaster
5. An Apparent Feminist Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
6. Looking Forward, Looking Back
Notes
References
Index
About the Author