The first book-length investigation of a pioneering English professor and theorist at Vassar College, "A Feminist Legacy: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck" explores Buck s contribution to the fields of education and rhetoric during the Progressive Era. By contextualizing Buck s academic and theoretical work within the rise of women s educational institutions like Vassar College, the social and political movement toward suffrage, and Buck s own egalitarian political and social ideals, Suzanne Bordelon offers a scholarly and well-informed treatment of Buck s achievements that...

Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent postsuffrage 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" 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...

Explores women's complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women's efforts at taking on new kinds of work.