An original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally, and how it's often reconfigured to work both for and against women and to maintain existing power structures.

Rebecca Dingo is an assistant professor in the Department of English and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the coeditor of The Megarhetorics of Global Development.