Abstract
During the 1990s, the American Association of University Women tried to put gender equity back onto a U.S. education agenda that had rolled back equity programming during the 1980s and turned toward standards and testing in the 1990s. Conservatives labeled the AA UW radical feminists and argued black schoolboys represent the greatest at-a-risk student population, a logic that prioritized race over gender and boys over girls. Nonwhite non-Anglo women criticized the AA UW for glossing over differences among girls and women. In its 1998 Gender Gaps, the AA UW wrote a rhetorical alliance with its critics on the right and the left by focusing on nonwhite non-Anglo girls. The result, however, constructed race as not white.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
38
Issue
1
First Page
101
Last Page
126
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Golombisky, Kim
(2006)
"Reforming Rhetoric: Gender Equity, The American Association of University Women, and the New White,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 38:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol38/iss1/8
Copyright
©2006 Iowa Communication Association
