![]() She asserts that rhetoricians' expertise in the art of persuasion renders them best suited to undermine such oppressive tactics of argumentation, and as a rhetorician herself, Gearhart proposes in her essay to reform the discipline. ![]() She situates that violence within the specific framework of the history of rhetoric and the preponderance of books, treatises, and theories that teach speakers and writers how to change another individual's opinions and actions, and she claims that such a pedagogy is related to the conquest/conversion mentality that has defined Western civilization. ![]() In her controversial 1979 essay, "The Womanization of Rhetoric," Sally Miller Gearhart grounds her indictment of rhetoric in her "belief that any intent to persuade is an act of violence" (195). ![]()
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