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1.

Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 1 » Read Now
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 216 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who...
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"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public. The first volume lays the foundation for the analysis of rhetorical style and content by its fine introduction and by a succession of chapters organized chronologically, with biographical sketches and excerpts from speeches. It includes a chapter specifically addressed to issues of sex, race, and class faced by African American women. Volume 2 is not a continuation of the first, but contains the texts on which the first volume is based. The biographical and historical sections are gracefully written and well organized, but the greatest value of the set lies in the actual words of the feminist leaders and Campbell's skillfull analyses. Every women's studies program must have this available. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice
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Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 2 » Read Now
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 562 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who...
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"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public. The first volume lays the foundation for the analysis of rhetorical style and content by its fine introduction and by a succession of chapters organized chronologically, with biographical sketches and excerpts from speeches. It includes a chapter specifically addressed to issues of sex, race, and class faced by African American women. Volume 2 is not a continuation of the first, but contains the texts on which the first volume is based. The biographical and historical sections are gracefully written and well organized, but the greatest value of the set lies in the actual words of the feminist leaders and Campbell's skillfull analyses. Every women's studies program must have this available. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice
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Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 512 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them. Following Campbell's introductory chapter, the volume provides extensive entries on 37 key orators. Subjects include suffragists, the first...
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This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them. Following Campbell's introductory chapter, the volume provides extensive entries on 37 key orators. Subjects include suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers. Each entry provides brief biographical information, then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric and information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.
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Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 491 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Perkins, and Ann Willis Richards; women with important scientific careers...
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This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Perkins, and Ann Willis Richards; women with important scientific careers, such as Rachel Carson and Helen Broinowski Caldicott; and women with religious careers, such as Dorothy Day and Pauli Murray. It includes extraordinary women, such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those, such as Phyllis Schlafly, who have been actively anti-feminist. Each entry provides brief biographical information, focuses on an analysis of the subject's rhetoric, and concludes with information on sources.
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Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric » Read Now
by Carol Mattingly. 220 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century.
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"I Am as a Bell That Cannot Ring": Antebellum Women Oratory, in Women and Language » Read Now
by Anne Mattina. 6 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...the role of women in American...From these speakers we can learn...deal with public and religious...antebellum women speakers. Crediting...wrote Pioneer Women Orators...who...
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We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women » Read Now
by Shirley Wilson Logan. 262 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.
Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public...
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Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.
Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials, essays, and letters.
Logan first focuses on the prophetic oratory of Maria Stewart, the first American-born black woman to speak publicly. Turning to Frances Harper, she considers speeches that argue for common interests between divergent communities. And she demonstrates that central to the antilynching rhetoric of Ida Wells is the concept of "presence, " or the tactic of enhancing certain selected elements of the presentation.
In her discussion of Fannie Barrier Williams and Anna Cooper, Logan shows that when speaking to which club women and black clergymen, both Williams and,Cooper employ what Kenneth Burke called identification. To analyze the rhetoric of Victoria Matthews, she applies Carolyn Miller's modification of Lloyd Bitzer's concept of the rhetorical situation.
Logan also examines the discourse of women associated with the black Baptist women's movement and those participating in college-affiliated conferences.
The book includes an appendix with little-known speeches and essays by Anna Julia Cooper, Selena Sloan Butler, Lucy Wilmot Smith, Mary V. Cook, Adella Hunt Logan, Victoria Earle Matthews, Lucy C. Laney, and Georgia Swift King.
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With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women » Read Now
by Shirley Logan Wilson. 172 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...forth upon the public platform to...many early women speakers opened their...Fitch in Women Public Speakers in the United...embodied in these speakers highlight the dilemma...
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Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors » Read Now
by Brenda DeVore Marshall, Molly A. Mayhead. 154 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

Marshall, Mayhead, and their contributors explore the discourse women governors use to negotiate political boundaires. The analysis, based on the study of five governors, suggests that women bring issues of caring, empowerment, family, and inclusivity to their office, thus resculpting the face of...
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Marshall, Mayhead, and their contributors explore the discourse women governors use to negotiate political boundaires. The analysis, based on the study of five governors, suggests that women bring issues of caring, empowerment, family, and inclusivity to their office, thus resculpting the face of the governorship, restructuring the political landscape, and redefining women's roles.
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Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910 » Read Now
by Nan Johnson. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, non-academic 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.
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Addressing Issues of Context in Historical Women's Public Address, in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now
by E. Michele Ramsey. 24 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song » Read Now
by Suzanne Pullon Fitch, Roseann M. Mandziuk. 239 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona. The book...
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This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the life of Sojourner Truth, and includes a unique and authoritative compilation of primary rhetorical documents, such as speeches, songs, and public letters.
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From One Voice A Chorus: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1860 Address to the New York State Legislature, in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now
by Diane Helene Miller. 37 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...movement because of the publicity of a convention...the way that many women viewed their activist...women themselves as speakers and objections to...Just as the men and...
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Pre-Inception Rhetoric in the Creation of a Social Movement: The Case of Frances Wright, in Communication Studies » Read Now
by Cary R. W. Voss, Robert C. Rowland. 14 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...included in Women Speakers in the United...years to deter women from seeking the public speaking platform...a storm of public anger. Therefore...this case women) to...
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Barbara C. Jordan--Selected Speeches » Read Now
by Sandra Parham, Barbara C. Jordan. 114 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their...every citizen must demand. Public men and women make the decisions in government...ahead?...