Kristy Maddux
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristy Maddux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristy |
| FAMILY NAME | Maddux |
| SIGNATURE | MADDUX K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pedestrian Citizenship
Amid the massive project of national reconstruction—characterized by urbanization and social upheaval—that followed the American Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted reenvisioned built environments across the nation. This article claims that, for Olmsted and his contemporaries, who were simultaneously curious about, skeptical of, and fearful of the new cities, his designs attempted to show the democratic potential of urban environments. Reading his s…
White man's road through Black man's home”
Between 1965 and 1973, a coalition of local Washington, D.C., activists, organized as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), prevented construction of two freeways that would have destroyed neighborhoods and reshaped local communities. This essay reads their rhetorical practices as an example of decolonial delinking. To do so, I first re-tell the story of Washington, D.C., as an ongoing project of coloniality characterized b…
The Evolving Citizen
Book Review| December 01 2015 The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. By Jay P. Childers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012; pp. x + 220. $54.95 cloth; $27.95 paper. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publi…
Religious Dissociation in 2012 Campaign Discourse
Research Article| June 01 2013 Religious Dissociation in 2012 Campaign Discourse Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (2): 355–368. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.2.0355 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Fundamentalist Fool or Populist Paragon? William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign against Evolutionary Theory
This essay revisits William Jennings Bryan's campaign against evolutionary theory through analysis of four rhetorical moments—his platform orations “The Prince of Peace” (beginning in 1904) and “The Menace of Darwinism” (beginning in 1921), his testimony at the Scopes Trial, and his undelivered closing speech, “On Evolution.” In contrast to popular memory of Bryan as the fundamentalist fool, I maintain that he shared little rhetorical ground with…
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
Book Review| December 01 2012 The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. Steven D. Smith. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (4): 737–740. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940635 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; The Disenchantment of Secular Discour…
The Feminized Gospel
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), itinerant revivalist and founder of Angelus Temple, established a popular and notorious preaching career that attracted devoted followers and outspoken critics in seemingly equal measure. This essay suggests that popular critiques of McPherson—which came from rival clergy, prominent journalists, and vocal atheists—can best be understood as a manifestation of popular anxiety over gendered styles of Christianity.…
Winning the Right to Vote in 2004
HBO's 2004 feature film, Iron Jawed Angels, won popular and industry acclaim for its compelling portrayal of the US woman suffrage movement. For making this historical narrative accessible to contemporary audiences, the film deserves the praise of feminist critics, but it also necessitates careful feminist analysis of its retrospective framing strategies. This essay argues that the film appeals to twenty-first-century audiences because it (1) dra…
Feminism and Foreign Policy
Through a case study of first lady Rosalynn Carter's 1977 Latin America trip, this essay heeds feminist critics' calls to account for the discursive conditions that enable women's rhetorical performances. Examining the public vocabularies of feminism and foreign policy in the 1970s, I argue that the popular emergence of the terms “equal partnership” and “individual sovereignty” facilitated Carter's performance of her public role
When Patriots Protest
Historians have tried to use social movement, organizational, and leadership markers to define the anti-suffrage movement and to explain the radical change that occurred in that movement in 1917, and they have largely failed in doing so. As an alternative, this essay explains the anti-suffrage movement through that change, and specifically through its discursive transformation. To illuminate this transformation, the essay focuses on the case of t…
Feminism and Foreign Policy
Through a case study of first lady Rosalynn Carter's 1977 Latin America trip, this essay heeds feminist critics' calls to account for the discursive conditions that enable women's rhetorical performances. Examining the public vocabularies of feminism and foreign policy in the 1970s, I argue that the popular emergence of the terms “equal partnership” and “individual sovereignty” facilitated Carter's performance of her public role
The Feminized Gospel
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), itinerant revivalist and founder of Angelus Temple, established a popular and notorious preaching career that attracted devoted followers and outspoken critics in seemingly equal measure. This essay suggests that popular critiques of McPherson—which came from rival clergy, prominent journalists, and vocal atheists—can best be understood as a manifestation of popular anxiety over gendered styles of Christianity.…
When Patriots Protest
Historians have tried to use social movement, organizational, and leadership markers to define the anti-suffrage movement and to explain the radical change that occurred in that movement in 1917, and they have largely failed in doing so. As an alternative, this essay explains the anti-suffrage movement through that change, and specifically through its discursive transformation. To illuminate this transformation, the essay focuses on the case of t…
Feminism and Foreign Policy
Through a case study of first lady Rosalynn Carter's 1977 Latin America trip, this essay heeds feminist critics' calls to account for the discursive conditions that enable women's rhetorical performances. Examining the public vocabularies of feminism and foreign policy in the 1970s, I argue that the popular emergence of the terms “equal partnership” and “individual sovereignty” facilitated Carter's performance of her public role
Winning the Right to Vote in 2004
HBO's 2004 feature film, Iron Jawed Angels, won popular and industry acclaim for its compelling portrayal of the US woman suffrage movement. For making this historical narrative accessible to contemporary audiences, the film deserves the praise of feminist critics, but it also necessitates careful feminist analysis of its retrospective framing strategies. This essay argues that the film appeals to twenty-first-century audiences because it (1) dra…
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
Book Review| December 01 2012 The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. Steven D. Smith. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (4): 737–740. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940635 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; The Disenchantment of Secular Discour…
The Feminized Gospel
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), itinerant revivalist and founder of Angelus Temple, established a popular and notorious preaching career that attracted devoted followers and outspoken critics in seemingly equal measure. This essay suggests that popular critiques of McPherson—which came from rival clergy, prominent journalists, and vocal atheists—can best be understood as a manifestation of popular anxiety over gendered styles of Christianity.…
Religious Dissociation in 2012 Campaign Discourse
Research Article| June 01 2013 Religious Dissociation in 2012 Campaign Discourse Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (2): 355–368. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.2.0355 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Fundamentalist Fool or Populist Paragon? William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign against Evolutionary Theory
This essay revisits William Jennings Bryan's campaign against evolutionary theory through analysis of four rhetorical moments—his platform orations “The Prince of Peace” (beginning in 1904) and “The Menace of Darwinism” (beginning in 1921), his testimony at the Scopes Trial, and his undelivered closing speech, “On Evolution.” In contrast to popular memory of Bryan as the fundamentalist fool, I maintain that he shared little rhetorical ground with…
The Evolving Citizen
Book Review| December 01 2015 The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. By Jay P. Childers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012; pp. x + 220. $54.95 cloth; $27.95 paper. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publi…
Pedestrian Citizenship
Amid the massive project of national reconstruction—characterized by urbanization and social upheaval—that followed the American Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted reenvisioned built environments across the nation. This article claims that, for Olmsted and his contemporaries, who were simultaneously curious about, skeptical of, and fearful of the new cities, his designs attempted to show the democratic potential of urban environments. Reading his s…
White man's road through Black man's home”
Between 1965 and 1973, a coalition of local Washington, D.C., activists, organized as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), prevented construction of two freeways that would have destroyed neighborhoods and reshaped local communities. This essay reads their rhetorical practices as an example of decolonial delinking. To do so, I first re-tell the story of Washington, D.C., as an ongoing project of coloniality characterized b…
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