Reflections on Kirsch and Royster

      What I found most interesting in Feminist Rhetorical Practices is the suggestion Kirsch and Royster make about the relevance of using critical imagination to help render a quality of excellence in our work with rhetorical studies. The question they pose is important when considering our own ethics as researchers when they ask, “when we study women of the past how do we render their work and lives meaningful?” At this point in the semester I think it is safe to make the assumption that a major strategy for feminist researchers is to question their own practices to become aware of the way they reflect a cultural standard. Kirsch and Royster ask how do research subjects frame rather than we frame the questions by which they navigated their own lives. It is the idea that feminist researchers must step outside of their own lives and learn to question their own beliefs and motivations that I see as a major strategy for feminist scholarship.