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Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
Associate Professor Wendy B Sharer
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Description for Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
Paperback. Explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors. Editor(s): Glenn, Cheryl; Logan, Shirley Wilson. Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; CFG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors. ""Vote and Voice"" is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement. During those years, women still did not have power within deliberative and administrative organs of politics, despite their recent enfranchisement. Because they were largely absent from diplomatic ... Read more
Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors. ""Vote and Voice"" is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement. During those years, women still did not have power within deliberative and administrative organs of politics, despite their recent enfranchisement. Because they were largely absent from diplomatic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809327508
SKU
V9780809327508
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About Associate Professor Wendy B Sharer
Wendy B. Sharer is an assistant professor of English at East Carolina University where she also directs the first-year writing program. She is the coauthor of 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition and the coeditor of Rhetorical Education in America.
Reviews for Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
Sharer's in-depth scholarship is superb; she has immersed herself in primary sources of the 1920s and 1930s and skillfully uses contemporary theory of rhetoric and composition to interpret it. - Molly Meier Wertheimer, coeditor of Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women