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Reclaiming Rhetorica Women in the Rhetorical Tradition

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ISBN-10: 0822955539

ISBN-13: 9780822955535

Edition: 1995

Authors: Andrea A. Lunsford

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Womenrsquo;s contribution to rhetoric throughout Western history, like so many other aspects of womenrsquo;s experience, has yet to be fully explored.nbsp; In pathbreaking discussions ranging from ancient Greece, though the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times, sixteen closely coordinated essays examine how women have used language to reflect their vision of themselves and their age; how they have used traditional rhetoric and applied it to womenrsquo;s discourse; and how women have contributed to rhetorical theory.nbsp; Language specialists, feminists, and all those interested in rhetoric, composition, and communication, will benefit from the fresh and stimulating…    
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Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 6/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Andrea A. Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a member of the faculty of The Bread Loaf Graduate School of English. She has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing history and theory, rhetoric, literacy studies, and intellectual property and is the author or co-author of many books and articles, including The Everyday Writer; Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, Everything's an Argument, Exploring Borderlands: Composition and…    

Foreword
Acknowledgments
On Reclaiming Rhetorica
Aspasia: Rhetoric, Gender, and Colonial Ideology
A Lover's Discourse: Diotima, Logos, and Desire
Reexamining The Book of Margery Kempe: A Rhetoric of Autobiography
Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric
Mary Astell: Reclaiming Rhetorica in the Seventeenth Century
Daring to Dialogue: Mary Wollstonecraft's Rhetoric of Feminist Dialogics
Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century
To Call a Thing by Its True Name: The Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells
"Intelligent Members or Restless Disturbers": Women's Rhetorical Styles, 1880-1920
Woman Suffrage and the History of Rhetoric at the Seven Sisters Colleges, 1865-1919
Sojourner Truth: A Practical Public Discourse
The Telling: Laura (Riding) Jackson's Project for a Whole Human Discourse
Susanne K. Langer: Mother and Midwife at the Rebirth of Rhetoric
A Rhetoric for Audiences: Louise Rosenblatt on Reading and Action
Julia Kristeva: Rhetoric and the Woman as Stranger
Afterword
Index
Notes on Contributors