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Appropriate[Ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
Carol Mattingly
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Paperback. Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for 19th-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and apppearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric. Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms. Num Pages: 192 pages, 25 illustrations, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; CFG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for nineteenth-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and appearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric. Although crucial to women's effectiveness as speakers, Mattingly notes, appearance has been ignored because it was taken for granted by men. Because women rarely spoke in public before the nineteenth century, no guidelines existed regarding appropriate dress when they began to speak to audiences. Dress evoked immediate images of gender, an essential consideration for women speakers because of its strong association with place, locating women ... Read more
Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for nineteenth-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and appearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric. Although crucial to women's effectiveness as speakers, Mattingly notes, appearance has been ignored because it was taken for granted by men. Because women rarely spoke in public before the nineteenth century, no guidelines existed regarding appropriate dress when they began to speak to audiences. Dress evoked immediate images of gender, an essential consideration for women speakers because of its strong association with place, locating women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809324286
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V9780809324286
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About Carol Mattingly
Carol Mattingly is the director of the Writing Center at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Well-Tempered Women. Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric.
Reviews for Appropriate[Ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
"Appropriate[ing] Dress is an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, with fascinating implications for the analysis of women's public speaking in all eras. Mattingly builds here upon her thorough knowledge of the period... drawing extensively on period illustrations and journalism. She concludes with provocative links to contemporary theoretical concerns in feminist rhetoric - a must-read for ... Read more