Thinking about topics for the research project

What are you thinking about doing for the research project? What topics do you find interesting? What rhetorical angles? Do you see yourself using any of the essays we've recently read as models for your project?

Food and Gender

Please discuss your responses to Susan Bordo's assertions about women and food advertising. Can you think of any contemporary examples? If you can't, try a Google Images search of "people eating" and compare the men and women. Is her argument dated?

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Obama eats and folks take notice.

Thursday's Reading

I figured for organization's sake we could make a new post and comment on that.

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Welcome

We'll be using this space to discuss ideas and observations about class discussions and assigned reading. Feel free to post relevant links to texts that will broaden our discussion of food rhetoric.

For our first post (choose "comment" to post) discuss the two texts assigned. Who do you think they were written for? What kind of strategies do they use? Are these appeals and strategies effective for the intended audience? Have you thought much about the connection between meat (or food production) and the environment before?