Mobility, citizenship, and “American women on the move” in the 1977 International Women’s Year torch relay
2017; Routledge; Volume: 103; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00335630.2017.1321134
ISSN1479-5779
Autores Tópico(s)Media Studies and Communication
ResumoThis essay examines the 1977 International Women’s Year torch relay from Seneca Falls to Houston to demonstrate the rhetoricity of mobility and theorize running as a mode of public address. The relay used the velocity of running to centralize athleticism and the female athlete as a crucial site for liberal feminist citizenship claims in 1977 in the context of Title IX and the struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment. The runners’ movement through space and place advanced a discursive performance of citizenship as they traversed the South. This analysis reveals mobility as a theoretical framework for rhetorical scholars interested in space, place, citizenship, and social movement.
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