{"product_id":"surrender-jessica-restaino-9780809337149","title":"Surrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness","description":"Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award, 2020 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute's life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted genres and established practices of knowledge making. Restaino searches their experiences--recorded in interviews, informal writings, and correspondence--to discover a rhetoric of love and illness. She encourages a synthesis of methods and the acceptance of a reversal of roles--researcher and researched, writer and written-about--and emphasizes the relevancy of methodological diversity, the necessity of the personal, and the analytical richness of unpredictability and risk in being who we are in our scholarship at any given moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bringing together critical analysis, qualitative-style research methods, close reading, \u003ci\u003eSurrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Illness\u003c\/i\u003e resists traditional ideas about academic writing and invites others to pursue collaborations that subvert accepted approaches to representation, textual production, and subjectivity. Restaino demonstrates a way of writing--the rendering of the academic text itself--that suggests \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e we do our work has resonance for \u003ci\u003ewhat \u003c\/i\u003ewe produce. She offers framing questions for use by others interested in doing similar kinds of scholarship that may frighten, overwhelm, or confound. This book deepens our understanding of subjectivity and the gains made by feminist resistance to conventional concepts of objectivity in research collaborations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Restaino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809337142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809337149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Jessica Restaino","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947264803071,"sku":"9780809337149","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_730e6286-50f9-443f-a1a6-d4f5956247a0.jpg?v=1681517690","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surrender-jessica-restaino-9780809337149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}