1. I absolutely LOVE the interweaving of narrative and strong sense of location in “The Personal as Method and the Place as Archives.” I’ve done work that tried to be like this (though nowhere near as good!), and I’ve had very mixed responses to it within the academy. What have Rohan’s experiences with this been [...]
Annotated Bibliography: Needlework, Rhetoric, and Feminism
Arnott, Sigrid. “Knitting Socks for the Revolution.” For the Love of Knitting: A Celebration of the Knitter’s Art. Ed. Kari Cornell. Stillwater: Voyageur P, 2004. 125–130.
The wider work from which this comes is a coffee-table book that showcases images of knitted projects, vintage advertisements, and luscious yarn. However, the mix of essays contained within belie [...]
Questions 11/20
1. In the McKee/Blair piece, I love Blair’s admission of her own mistaken ideas about older adults and technological literacy. This is a wonderful example of a researcher not only locating herself, but admitting her own faults. How did others respond to this? Have you seen other researchers with this kind of candor in their [...]
Questions 11/13
1. I want to love what Cushman is saying in the “Rhetorican” piece…but I’m not sure I do. Does the model of reciprocity she’s positing work for everyone else? I can’t help feeling like it’s building in some power relations with which I’m not comfortable in the way that she frames it. Further, is this [...]
