Literacy Heroines: Women and the Written Word

ISBN-13: 9781433162008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Alice S. Horning

Opis

Literacy Heroines is about twelve amazing women who lived and worked in the period 1880-1930 who used their literacy abilities to address major issues in the country in those years, including some we still face today.

Recenzje

"With Literacy Heroines, Alice Horning offers us the profiles and contributions of some major literacy sponsors whose literacy labors helped shape American education, social activism, and culture from the turn of the century to the early quarter of the twentieth century. These women understood the potent force of critical reading and writing, and Horning underscores how their literacy efforts act as exemplary models for our own twenty-first century literacy sponsorships." -Mark McBeth, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and English Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center/CUNY

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Educators - Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) and Schooling for African American Girls - Gertrude Buck (1871-1922) and Rhetorical Theory and Practice - Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) and the Moonlight Schools - Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) and Native American Civil Rights - Activists - Jane Addams (1860-1935) and Hull-House - Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) and the NAACP - Lillian Wald (1867-1940) and the Henry Street Settlement - Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), Social Justice and the Antilynching Movement - Writers - Nella Larsen (1891-1964) and the Harlem Renaissance - Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) and the Woman's Era - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and Uncle Tom's Cabin - Ida Tarbell (1857- 1944) and the Muckrakers - Lessons and Conclusions - Index.

O autorze

Alice S. Horning is Professor Emerita of Writing & Rhetoric/Linguistics at Oakland University, where she focused on the intersection of reading and writing. Her most recent work is the co-edited Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News, published by Peter Lang (with Ellen Carillo). She is the editor of the Studies in Composition and Rhetoric book series for Peter Lang.