Articles
Contradiction as Agency: Self-determination, Transcendence, and Counter-imagination in Third Wave Feminism (with Valerie R. Renegar), Hypatia (2009)
This essay examines the contradictions often found in third wave feminist texts that function as...
Flag Waving as Visual Argument: 2006 Immigration Demonstrations and Cultural Citizenship (with Richard D. Pineda), Argumentation and Advocacy (2007)
During the 2006 immigration rallies and demonstrations, hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters...
Identification through Orangutans: Destabilizing the Nature/Culture Dualism, Ethics and the Environment (2006)
The nature/culture dualism has long been criticized for constructing social beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that...
Rbetoric of tbe Perpetual Potential: A Case Study of the Environmentalist Movement to Protect Orangutans, Environmental Communication Yearbook (2006)
Environmentalists often employ apocalyptic or doomsday rhetoric to draw attention to a particular environmental problem...
Reconceptualizing Rhetorical Activism in Contemporary Feminist Contexts (with Valerie R. Renegar), Howard Journal of Communications (2006)
Feminist activism has long incorporated the rhetorical strategies of public protest and confrontation. However, feminist...
Bilingual education and national identity in for the Cabécares in the , International Perspectives: Focus on Latin America and Border Culture (2005)
The Rhetorical Functions of Consciousness-Raising in Third Wave Feminism (with Valerie R. Renegar), Communication Studies (2004)
The rhetorical practice of consciousness-raising has changed since communication theorists first began to apply its...
Liberal Irony, Rhetoric, and Feminist Thought: A Unifying Third Wave Feminist Theory (with Valerie R. Renegar), Philosophy and Rhetoric (2003)
Third wave feminism highlights the tensions of its predecessor feminisms while offering the hope of...