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...