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.