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1 online resource (xv, 205 pages). |
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Language arts language |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
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Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-193) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Humanist Dialogues and Defenses of Women's Education: Conversation as a Model for All Discourse -- Conduct Book Rhetoric: Constructing a Theory of Feminine Discourse -- Defenses of Women's Preaching: Dissenting Rhetoric and the Language of Women's Rights -- Elocution: Sentimental Culture and Performing Femininity -- Conclusion: Composition Textbooks by Women and the Decline of a Women's Tradition. |
| Summary |
Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres-humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Rhetoric -- United States -- History.
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Rhetoric. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Rhetoric -- England -- History.
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England. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
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Women -- Education -- United States -- Language arts.
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Women -- Education. |
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Women -- Education -- England -- Language arts.
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Oral communication -- United States.
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Oral communication. |
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Oral communication -- England.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Donawerth, Jane, 1947- Conversational rhetoric. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2012 9780809330270 (DLC) 2011006185 (OCoLC)702941813 |
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9780809386307 (electronic book) |
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0809386305 (electronic book) |
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9780809330270 |
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080933027X |
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