Hi Dr. Victor,
One of the things I wish you did is to give us a schema for Contemprory Rhetoric. it should not be like the one you gave us last semester but a one which will give us an overview of the types of Con. Rhet. In other words, you break down into its types.
With regard ot the assignment, the following are the terms:
Feminism: a term used to describe a political, cultural or economical movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women.
Modernism: describes both a set of cultural tendecies and an array of associated cultural movements, arising from changes in western society in the late nineteenth century and early 20th century.
postmodernism: refers to a point of departure for desciplines in the late 20th century and early 21 century. It is in one way or another an extention to modernism.
Thatcherism: describes the idealogy, politics and political style of the British conservative politician Margret Thatcher.
Essentialism: is the view that any specific kind of entity has a set of characteristics and properties.
Noe essentialism: assumes that it is necssary for any kind of identity to have soecific traits.