Food Fights: Cookbook Rhetorics, Monolithic Constructions of Womanhood, and Field Narratives in Technical Communication. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moeller, Marie E.; Frost, Erin A.
• Is Part Of: Technical communication quarterly. Volume 25:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 11
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Cookbooks -- feminist theory -- gender research -- history of technical communication -- rhetoric -- technology -- textual analysis -- womanhood; Technical writing -- Periodicals; Technical writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 808.0666
• DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2016.1113025
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1057-2252

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Field narratives that (re)classify technical genres as liberating for women risk supporting the notion that feminism is a completed project in technical communication scholarship. This article suggests that technical communicators reexamine the impact of past approaches to critical engagement at the intersections of gender studies and technical communication; cookbooks provide a material example. The authors illustrate how a feminist approach to cookbooks as technical/cultural artifacts can productively revise field narratives in technical communication.