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Agency: Promiscuous and Protean

Pages 1-19 | Published online: 07 Aug 2006

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Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury. (2018) Beyond “Rhetorical Agency”: Skutnik’s Story in the 1982 State of the Union Address. Western Journal of Communication 82:1, pages 40-58.
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Derek Van Ittersum. (2014) Craft and Narrative in DIY Instructions. Technical Communication Quarterly 23:3, pages 227-246.
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LaurenM. Amaro. (2012) Diagnosing Dr. House: Codependency, Agency, and Third Wave Contradiction. Western Journal of Communication 76:5, pages 520-535.
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Sara VanderHaagen. (2012) Practical Truths: Black Feminist Agency and Public Memory in Biographies for Children. Women's Studies in Communication 35:1, pages 18-41.
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Robert Terrill. (2011) Mimesis, Duality, and Rhetorical Education. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41:4, pages 295-315.
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LeslieJ. Harris. (2009) Motherhood, Race, and Gender: The Rhetoric of Women's Antislavery Activism in the Liberty Bell Giftbooks. Women's Studies in Communication 32:3, pages 293-319.
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Casey Ryan Kelly. (2009) Women's Rhetorical Agency in the American West: The New Penelope . Women's Studies in Communication 32:2, pages 203-231.
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Lin-Lee Lee. (2009) Inventing Familial Agency from Powerlessness: Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women . Western Journal of Communication 73:1, pages 47-66.
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Naida Zukic. (2008) Webbing Sexual/Textual Agency in Autobiographical Narratives of Pleasure. Text and Performance Quarterly 28:4, pages 396-414.
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