Disciplining the feminine

This essay, positioned at the nexus of several intellectual projects, including the rhetoric of inquiry, the ideological turn, critical rhetoric, and feminist theory, provides a case study of some of the practices in the communication discipline that support a masculinist ideology. The authors examine the ideological issues and practices implicated in a 1992 report on "Active Prolific Female Scholars in Communication" and in their effort to publish a critique of this report. The essay departs from normal conventions of academic writing, which privilege a unitary authorial voice, instead presenting the multivocality of several text fragments.