Who Should Govern Women?

Zornitsa Dimova Keremidchieva is Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Review of Communication, Women's History Review, Feminist Media Studies, Women and Language, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Journal of Argumentation in Context, among others.

"A fascinating history of the material changes in the ways women were represented in congressional proceedings; an ambitious reconsideration of the possibilities of a materialist rhetoric of desiring production; and a powerful analysis of the ways women were implicated in practices of jurisdiction, state building, and changing remises of governance. Any one of these is well worth the effort. Taken together, Who Should Govern Women? is an impressive and important contribution to feminism, rhetoric, and cultural studies." -Lawrence Grossberg, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "In this groundbreaking study, Keremidchieva centers the politics of gender within the formation and extension of the United States as a global economic empire, showing the interactions of feminism and congressional debate and providing a new and compelling understanding of US political history. Deftly analyzing specific, fascinating moments within wide-ranging theoretical frameworks, Who Should Govern Women? offers a welcome and bracing challenge to contemporary feminism, rhetoric, and geopolitics." -Angela G. Ray, author of The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States