ABSTRACT
As administrators marked by our physical, corporeal bodies, we must work to understand the systematic management of bodies. Simply defined, a middleman administrator is an intermediary. Neither an ordinary worker nor one of the "Powers That Be," middlemen administrators exist in-between the people and the power. Responsible for the success of everyday operations, middlemen are often in the unenviable position of having quite a bit of responsibility with little ability to make direct change. By asking questions about bodily place and positionality, we come to explore the rhetorical capabilities of our own bodies, and from this space of interpersonal agency, we can renegotiate the role of middleman, or an agent who serves as the mediatory between the faculty and students we serve and the administration to which we report. The chapter emphasizes the importance of instantiated embodied difference, opening spaces for reconceived possibilities of how feminist administrators in higher education recognize and make use of rhetorical affordance.
