Feminist Rhetorical Theory and Gender Representation

Feminist Rhetorical Theory and Gender Representation

Teresa de Lauretis, “The Technology of Gender”

This text is very important for studying rhetoric because of two main reasons. First of all, it specifically poses the question of how gender can be theorized beyond the sexual differences limits, and the constraints the notion has imposed on the critical thought of the feminist. Based on the Foucault’s theory of sexuality, the conceptual premise of the text proposes that gender also is al product of different technologies such as institutional discourses, cinema, critical practices and epistemologies. This implies that it does not only focus on academic criticism but majorly on cultural and social practices (Lauretis 3). This makes it…