Valerie Palmer‐Mehta
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5870964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Valerie Palmer‐Mehta |
| PRENOMES | Valerie |
| SOBRENOME | Palmer‐Mehta |
| ASSINATURA | MEHTA V P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oakland University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Hall of Shame
In a powerful journalistic moment of 2018, The New York Times published the article, “After Weinstein: 71 Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and Their Fall from Power.” It presented one collective effect of the #MeToo movement: a compendium of elite men compelled to leave their jobs due to their sexual misconduct. Shifting from the scrutinizing focus on survivors, the article created a hall of shame that placed the perpetrators and their abridged a…
It's the truth about women— that we get lost”
Few figures vivify the struggle over public memory and survival as compellingly as second wave feminist Andrea Dworkin, who was a visionary and gadfly within the movement. This analysis provides an interior view of this public and often misunderstood figure as it advances a theory of archival resilience. Acting as a historical corrective, archival resilience emboldens the marginalized to interrupt the cohesive hegemonic imaginary to which they ha…
The Subversive Power of Survivor Rhetoric
On July 26, 2015, New York magazine published its cover story, “‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Stories about Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen,” written by Noreen Malone, and an associated portfolio by Amanda Demme. Six months in the making, this print and multimedia digital project included thirty-five photos and print testimonies of women sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby, along with six video testimonies.…
Rising Against the Third Shift
Discourses surrounding motherhood function increasingly to police the parameters of women’s bodies during pregnancy and postpartum. Rising against this trend is Jade Beall’s “A Beautiful Body Project” honoring mothers’ bodies in all their diversity. Using feminist rhetorical criticism, we investigate responses to the Facebook post announcing this project to gain an understanding of how commenters respond to Beall’s effort to reclaim and redefine …
Subversive Maternities
Author, activist, and performance artist Staceyann Chin uses her various platforms to express the complexities she faces as a Jamaican-Chinese lesbian immigrant living in New York. Chin recently expanded her repertoire to include a ten-part guest column for the national U.S. online newspaper, Huffington Post, in which she describes her journey to motherhood as a single, immigrant lesbian. Her column raises critical questions regarding what is con…
A “suitably dead” woman
This article investigates the discursive register through which lives become grievable by focusing on a case study of the discourses surrounding the death of radical feminist, Andrea Dworkin. I argue that Dworkin becomes embroiled in an interlocking nexus of illicit subject positions that set the terms of her grievability and obstruct recognition of her as a rational being by framing her (1) as the quintessential emotional and irrational woman wh…
The Rhetorical Space of the Garden in Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men
The garden, in its varying representations across time and culture, has functioned as a polyvalent space of diverse symbolic meanings. To investigate the richness of garden spaces for feminist communication scholars, I offer a narrative analysis of Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men that focuses on the role of the garden as a cultural and historical setting with the potential to illuminate gender politics and explore feminist possibilities. In my …
Refracting Mental Illness Through Disability
The Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
This essay examines performances of silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. Positing silence as a performative strategy that can bring agency to communist subjects and highlight oppression by rendering visible and intelligible their limited choices, we complicate traditional views on silence, extend work on silence as resistance, and demonstrate that the performance of silence can serve as a productive space for generating mea…
Gay Rights and Moral Panics
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rhetoric of Social Protest in Burma
This essay provides a case study of the speech that marks Aung San Suu Kyi's emergence as a leader of the pro-democracy opposition in Burma. I trace how she weaves together collective memory and an ethic of care to achieve political ascendancy and to create a space for nonviolent democratic revolution. The study contributes to progressive care theorizing by examining the construction of a care ethic in an authoritarian regime in the midst of revo…
Men Behaving Badly
US Guys
The Wisdom of Folly
This essay examines the recurring themes of masculinity and sports that emerge in the first three seasons of King of the Hill and the ways in which the character Bobby Hill negotiates masculine performativity within a comic frame as the figure of the wise fool. Bobby's folly within the context of sports functions to highlight the slippage in masculinity, opening up a space of ambivalence where subversive performativity is realized. The utility of…
A Superhero for Gays
The Wisdom of Folly
This essay examines the recurring themes of masculinity and sports that emerge in the first three seasons of King of the Hill and the ways in which the character Bobby Hill negotiates masculine performativity within a comic frame as the figure of the wise fool. Bobby's folly within the context of sports functions to highlight the slippage in masculinity, opening up a space of ambivalence where subversive performativity is realized. The utility of…
Men Behaving Badly
A Superhero for Gays
The Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
This essay examines performances of silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. Positing silence as a performative strategy that can bring agency to communist subjects and highlight oppression by rendering visible and intelligible their limited choices, we complicate traditional views on silence, extend work on silence as resistance, and demonstrate that the performance of silence can serve as a productive space for generating mea…
The Subversive Power of Survivor Rhetoric
On July 26, 2015, New York magazine published its cover story, “‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Stories about Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen,” written by Noreen Malone, and an associated portfolio by Amanda Demme. Six months in the making, this print and multimedia digital project included thirty-five photos and print testimonies of women sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby, along with six video testimonies.…
Refracting Mental Illness Through Disability
A Superhero for Gays
The Wisdom of Folly
This essay examines the recurring themes of masculinity and sports that emerge in the first three seasons of King of the Hill and the ways in which the character Bobby Hill negotiates masculine performativity within a comic frame as the figure of the wise fool. Bobby's folly within the context of sports functions to highlight the slippage in masculinity, opening up a space of ambivalence where subversive performativity is realized. The utility of…
US Guys
Gay Rights and Moral Panics
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rhetoric of Social Protest in Burma
This essay provides a case study of the speech that marks Aung San Suu Kyi's emergence as a leader of the pro-democracy opposition in Burma. I trace how she weaves together collective memory and an ethic of care to achieve political ascendancy and to create a space for nonviolent democratic revolution. The study contributes to progressive care theorizing by examining the construction of a care ethic in an authoritarian regime in the midst of revo…
Men Behaving Badly
The Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
This essay examines performances of silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. Positing silence as a performative strategy that can bring agency to communist subjects and highlight oppression by rendering visible and intelligible their limited choices, we complicate traditional views on silence, extend work on silence as resistance, and demonstrate that the performance of silence can serve as a productive space for generating mea…
Refracting Mental Illness Through Disability
The Rhetorical Space of the Garden in Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men
The garden, in its varying representations across time and culture, has functioned as a polyvalent space of diverse symbolic meanings. To investigate the richness of garden spaces for feminist communication scholars, I offer a narrative analysis of Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men that focuses on the role of the garden as a cultural and historical setting with the potential to illuminate gender politics and explore feminist possibilities. In my …
Subversive Maternities
Author, activist, and performance artist Staceyann Chin uses her various platforms to express the complexities she faces as a Jamaican-Chinese lesbian immigrant living in New York. Chin recently expanded her repertoire to include a ten-part guest column for the national U.S. online newspaper, Huffington Post, in which she describes her journey to motherhood as a single, immigrant lesbian. Her column raises critical questions regarding what is con…
A “suitably dead” woman
This article investigates the discursive register through which lives become grievable by focusing on a case study of the discourses surrounding the death of radical feminist, Andrea Dworkin. I argue that Dworkin becomes embroiled in an interlocking nexus of illicit subject positions that set the terms of her grievability and obstruct recognition of her as a rational being by framing her (1) as the quintessential emotional and irrational woman wh…
Rising Against the Third Shift
Discourses surrounding motherhood function increasingly to police the parameters of women’s bodies during pregnancy and postpartum. Rising against this trend is Jade Beall’s “A Beautiful Body Project” honoring mothers’ bodies in all their diversity. Using feminist rhetorical criticism, we investigate responses to the Facebook post announcing this project to gain an understanding of how commenters respond to Beall’s effort to reclaim and redefine …
The Subversive Power of Survivor Rhetoric
On July 26, 2015, New York magazine published its cover story, “‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Stories about Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen,” written by Noreen Malone, and an associated portfolio by Amanda Demme. Six months in the making, this print and multimedia digital project included thirty-five photos and print testimonies of women sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby, along with six video testimonies.…
The Hall of Shame
In a powerful journalistic moment of 2018, The New York Times published the article, “After Weinstein: 71 Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and Their Fall from Power.” It presented one collective effect of the #MeToo movement: a compendium of elite men compelled to leave their jobs due to their sexual misconduct. Shifting from the scrutinizing focus on survivors, the article created a hall of shame that placed the perpetrators and their abridged a…
It's the truth about women— that we get lost”
Few figures vivify the struggle over public memory and survival as compellingly as second wave feminist Andrea Dworkin, who was a visionary and gadfly within the movement. This analysis provides an interior view of this public and often misunderstood figure as it advances a theory of archival resilience. Acting as a historical corrective, archival resilience emboldens the marginalized to interrupt the cohesive hegemonic imaginary to which they ha…
Sociology (15 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Law (6 obras)