Crying Censorship Wolf: Prefiguring Contemporary Realities through Disciplinary History

Autor/inn/en	Holly Hassel; Kate L. Pantelides
Titel	Crying Censorship Wolf: Prefiguring Contemporary Realities through Disciplinary History
Quelle	In: College Composition and Communication, 77 (2026) 3, S. 404-429Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-096X
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Censorship; Language Usage; Guidelines; Academic Freedom; Resistance (Psychology); Gender Bias; Student Rights; Freedom of Speech; Rhetoric; Professional Associations; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politische Zensur; Sprachgebrauch; Richtlinien; Akademische Freiheit; Resistenz; Geschlechterstereotyp; Redefreiheit; Rhetorik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	US higher education faces mounting political pressure and censorship, resulting in threats to our institutional missions and challenges to academic freedom. In this article, we trace two moments in disciplinary history that examine (mis)understandings of how censorship functions: efforts to roll back the "Guidelines for Nonsexist Use of Language in NCTE Publications" (now "Statement on Gender and Language") and "Students' Right to Their Own Language," both approved by NCTE in the mid-1970s. We draw from the feminist theories of Kate Manne and bell hooks to analyze materials from the NCTE and CCCC archives, documenting the rhetorical and logistical moves employed in these rollback efforts. In doing so, we identify how the exploitation of organizational apparatuses contributed to the subversion of a larger and necessary priority: establishing credible disciplinary boundaries to serve as a bulwark against political encroachment into literacy education. In sorting through these case studies, we offer examination of how misguided censorship accusations can threaten our discipline when actual censorship efforts are enacted by governmental entities. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2026/2/04