DISCIPLINING THE FEMININE

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