Title: Role of the Leader in Social Movements – Accessing Rhetoric
Headings: Role of the Leader in Social Movements
Role of the Leader in Social Movements
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Content: The option to be moderate and reformist is simply not available to women’s liberation advocates” (399). This is an interesting connection to Simons and “power-vulnerables.” Because women have such deeply bodied and radical investment in these issues, they can’t occupy moderate space. I would argue the same is true for those participating in the DRM—the issue is so deeply bodied, in fact, that is a life or death issue. When the disabled don’t have access (to economic equality, health care, rights that positions them as human beings, relationships and families and a sexual culture), they risk prejudice, the inability to afford necessary medications and services, and hate crimes. Moving backward for a moment, it’s also important to flesh out what Kohrs Campbell means when she claims that women’s rhetoric is substantively and stylistically different. I’ve already addressed the substantive issues (violating sex-appropriate norms), and she defines stylistic features as “characteristic modes of rhetorical interaction, typical ways of structuring the relationships among participants in a rhetorical transaction, and emphasis on particular forms of argument, proof, and evidence” (400). This is where I began this post: the notion of rhetorical interactions and leader-less social movements. Kohrs Campbell focuses on “consciousness raising,” which “involves meetings of small, leaderless groups in which each person is encouraged to express her personal feelings and experience” (400).