Nan Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, nonacademic or parlor traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical behavior for women that required the performance of conventional femininity. Through a lucid examination of the boundaries of that gendered rhetorical spaceand the debate about who should occupy that spaceJohnson explores the codes governing and challenging the American woman s proper rhetorical sphere in the postbellum years.While men were learning to preach,...
Nan Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, nonacademic or parlor traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white ...
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,...
Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for nineteenth-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered con...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent and astute manner by first distinguishing between postmodern and antimodern feminisms and then reclaiming postmodern feminism by reconfiguring its relationship to modernism.Too often postmodern feminism is unfairly identified as opposed to modernism and associated with subjectivism and relativism. Flynn" "addresses these problems by provisionally defining postmodern feminism as problematizing and critiquing modernism without directly opposing...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent and astute manner by first distinguishing between postmodern and antimodern feminisms and then reclaiming postmodern feminism by reconfiguring its relationship to modernism.Too often postmodern feminism is unfairly identified as opposed to modernism and associated with subjectivism and relativism. Flynn" "addresses these problems by provisionally defining postmodern feminism as problematizing and critiquing modernism without directly opposing...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent...
During the 1920s and 1930s at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, working-class women were educated in the liberal arts and instructed in writing to assume more powerful roles in the industrial workplace. In "Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers," Karyn L. Hollis tells the remarkable story of how this multiclass, multiethnic American institution rooted in composition pedagogy, literary history, and leftist thought emerged from the broad social, economic, and ideological trends of the era. The summer school curriculum, Hollis shows, enhanced...
During the 1920s and 1930s at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, working-class women were educated in the liberal arts and instructed in w...
Within the context of current interest in service learning and community-based rhetorical activism, Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post-suffrage organizationsthe League of Women Voters and the Women s International League for Peace and Freedomchallenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors."Vote and Voice: Women s Organizations and Political Literacy, 19151930" is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women s political...
Within the context of current interest in service learning and community-based rhetorical activism, Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedago...
In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching—one of the oldest and least studied rhetorical traditions—Roxanne Mountford explores the relationship between bodies, space, race, and gender in rhetorical performance and American Protestant culture. Refiguring delivery and physicality as significant components of the rhetorical situation, The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces examines the strategies of three contemporary women preachers who have transgressed traditions, rearranged rhetorical space, and...
In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching—one of the oldest and least studied rhetorical traditions—Roxanne Mount...
Lindal Buchanan thoroughly analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction to subversive ends, developing distinctive delivery styles, and reconciling conflicting public and private roles. By detailing the education and oratorical practices of pioneering female public speakers, "Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors" theorizes how gender impacted the fifth rhetorical canon of delivery and how cultural constructions of the feminine have shaped public performance.
Buchanan argues that...
Lindal Buchanan thoroughly analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instructi...
Lindal Buchanan thoroughly analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction to subversive ends, developing distinctive delivery styles, and reconciling conflicting public and private roles. By detailing the education and oratorical practices of pioneering female public speakers, "Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors" theorizes how gender impacted the fifth rhetorical canon of delivery and how cultural constructions of the feminine have shaped public performance.
Buchanan argues that...
Lindal Buchanan thoroughly analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instructi...
Extending the feminist rhetorical project to define and model rhetorical listening
Long-ignored within rhetoric and composition studies, listening has returned to the disciplinary radar. Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness argues that rhetorical listening facilitates conscious identifications needed for cross-cultural communication.
Krista Ratcliffe establishes eavesdropping, listening metonymically, and listening pedagogically as approaches to rhetorical listening. She defines and models rhetorical listening, addressing identifications with...
Extending the feminist rhetorical project to define and model rhetorical listening
Long-ignored within rhetoric and composition studie...
