TY  - BOOK
AU  - George,Ann
AU  - Weiser,M Elizabeth
AU  - Zepernick,Janet
TI  - Women and rhetoric between the wars
SN  - 9780809331383
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Language
KW  - Women in public life
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Feminism
N1  - Cont.:Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, Janet Zepernick; Voluntary Associations for the Civic Scene; 1. Continuous Mediation: Julia Grace Wales's New Rhetoric -- Wendy B. Sharer; 2. The Hope for Peace and Bread -- Hephzibah Roskelly; 3. Gertrude Bonnin's Transrhetorical Fight for Land Rights -- Elizabeth Wilkinson; 4. A Rhetor's Apprenticeship: Reading Frances Perkins's Rhetorical Autobiography -- Janet Zepernick; 5. Working Together and Being Prepared: Early Girl Scouting as Citizenship Training -- Sarah Hallenbeck. Popular Celebrity in the Epideictic Scene6. Reading Helen Keller -- Ann George; 7. Dorothy Day: Personalizing (to) the Masses -- M. Elizabeth Weiser; 8. The Shocking Morality of Nannie Helen Burroughs -- Sandra L. Robinson; 9. Bessie Smith's Blues as Rhetorical Advocacy -- Coretta Pittman; 10. Traditional Form, Subversive Function: Aunt Molly Jackson's Labor Struggles -- Cassandra Parente; 11. Sweethearts of the Skies -- Sara Hillin; Academia and the Scene of Professionalism; 12. Field Guides: Women Writing Anthropology -- Risa Applegarth. 13. "Have We Not a Mind Like They?" : Jovita González on Nation and Gender -- Kathy Jurado14. "Exceptional Women" : Epideictic Rhetoric and Women Scientists -- Jordynn Jack; 15. "Long I Followed Happy Guides" : Activism, Advocacy, and English Studies -- Kay Halasek; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms; Other Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series; Back Cover
N2  - In Women and Rhetoric between the Wars, editors Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick have gathered together insightful essays from major scholars on women whose practices and theories helped shape the field of modern rhetoric. Examining the period between World War I and World War II, this volume sheds light on the forgotten rhetorical work done by the women of that time. It also goes beyond recovery to develop new methodologies for future research in the field. Collected within are analyses of familiar figures such as Jane Addam
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