Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.
Contents
Women and authority in the rhetorical economy of the late Middle Ages / Julia Dietrich -- The role of language in the construction of Mary Wortley Montagu's Rhetorical identity / Yvonne Merrill -- Princess Sarah, the civilized Indian : the rhetoric of cultural literacies in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes / Malea Powell -- Cooper and Crummell : dialogics of race and womanhood / Elizabeth West -- Authorial ethos, collaborative voice, and rhetorical theory by women / Jane Donawerth -- Theory emergent from practice : the rhetorical theory of Frances Wright / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- Econstructing sisterhood / Jane Gallop -- Exceptional women, expert culture, and the academy / Lois Cucullu -- Why feminists can't stop talking about voice / Cindy Moore -- Pedagogy and public engagement : the uses of women's rhetorics / Kate Ronald and Joy Ritchie -- Between fiction and real life : the reality of our work / Dorothy Allison.