| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: scraping the roof -- In the palindrome of the <CIVIC> -- What time o' night it is -- The path : then -- The building : of the future -- Speakers as we might be : now -- Walking the Milky Way. |
| Summary |
Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton's central argument is that all attempts to include women in rhetoric exclude them from meaningful authority in due course, and this exclusion has been built into the foundations of rhetoric. Drawing on personal experience, the spatial tropes of ancient Greek architecture, and the study of women who attai. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Intellectual life.
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Women -- Intellectual life. |
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Women. |
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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Rhetoric.
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Rhetoric. |
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Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sutton, Jane S. House of my sojourn. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9780817317157 (DLC) 2010017774 (OCoLC)613645602 |
| ISBN |
9780817384821 (electronic book) |
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0817384820 (electronic book) |
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9780817317157 |
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0817317155 |
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