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Hipparchia the Cynic: Feminist Rhetoric and the Ethics of Embodiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Kristen Kennedy
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Abstract

Hipparchia's use of exile as an ethical and rhetorical space from which to critique convention is the point of departure for an examination of the ethics of using exile as a rhetorically effective position for feminist theorizing. To address the ethical problems involved in using exile as a rhetorical space, I argue for a reading of exile as both a rhetorical and embodied space that can maintain an ethical anchor for feminist rhetorical and political practice.

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Hypatia , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Spring 1999 , pp. 48 - 71
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Copyright © 1999 by Hypatia, Inc.

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