Journalist Ellen Goodman

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This paper discusses well-known journalist Ellen Goodman. Her style of non-confrontational feminism is examined and her use of rhetorical techniques is analyzed. The paper reviews several of Goodman's essays and cites them as examples of her technique. Finally, the paper provides a brief critique of Goodman's writing style.

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"Ellen Goodman is often called a feminist journalist. However, within the framework of any ideological movement such as feminism, there are many different factions and many different "isms." Rather than attempting a radical critique of gender roles, Goodman usually prefers a more gentle, mainstream examination of the relationship of males and females in contemporary society. Goodman does not discount the presence of discrimination against women today. She acknowledges that she has faced discrimination personally, both professionally and as a media consumer. But Goodman also, through the use of a discursive and relatively un-confrontational rhetorical prose style, reinforces male and female binaries. Goodman's refusal to use a traditionally structured argument in many of her pieces on gender both reinforces as well as questions gender norms."

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