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Rhetorical Women
. Ed(S): Miller, Hildy; Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian
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Description for Rhetorical Women
Paperback. Women throughout the history of rhetoric have represented themselves as fulfilling roles that range from dependents or enablers of male authority to autonomous agents acting on their own. These essays examine the tactics women have employed in self-representation and the feminist rhetorics that result. Editor(s): Miller, Hildy; Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Just as women in Greek myth are cast in roles ranging from the helpless and innocent to the manipulative and powerful, so women throughout the history of rhetoric have represented themselves as fulfilling roles that range from dependents or enablers of male authority to autonomous agents acting on their own. These essays examine the tactics women have employed in self-representation and the feminist rhetorics that result. Contributors examine both past and present practices, highlighting correspondences between them and the ways those practices have varied, succeeded, or failed. Essays in part 1 consider how women historically have found ways to speak ... Read more
Just as women in Greek myth are cast in roles ranging from the helpless and innocent to the manipulative and powerful, so women throughout the history of rhetoric have represented themselves as fulfilling roles that range from dependents or enablers of male authority to autonomous agents acting on their own. These essays examine the tactics women have employed in self-representation and the feminist rhetorics that result. Contributors examine both past and present practices, highlighting correspondences between them and the ways those practices have varied, succeeded, or failed. Essays in part 1 consider how women historically have found ways to speak ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817351830
SKU
V9780817351830
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About . Ed(S): Miller, Hildy; Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian
Hildy Miller is Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing at Portland State University. She is coauthor of The Guide to Professional Development for Graduate Students in English. Lillian Bridwell-Bowles is Professor of English and Director of Communication at Louislana State University, and author of Identity Matters: Rhetorics of Difference.
Reviews for Rhetorical Women
A valuable contribution.... [Rhetorical Women] provides a comprehensive way of thinking about women and rhetoric not previously compiled in one source. The introduction is informative and explanatory, [and the] articles are consistently well written. - Carol Mattingly, author of Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric