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  • ISBN13:

    9780822957539

  • ISBN10:

    0822957531

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-12
  • Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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Available Meansoffers seventy women rhetoricians-from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century-a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of womenrs"s rhetoric.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Aspasia
1(8)
``Pericles' Funeral Oration'' from Plato's Menexenus (c. 387--367 B.C.E.)
2(7)
Diotima
9(7)
``On Love'' from Plato's Symposium (c. 360 B.C.E.)
10(6)
Hortensia
16(4)
``Speech to the Triumvirs'' (42 B.C.E.)
17(3)
Heloise
20(5)
From ``Letter I. Heloise to Abelard'' (1132)
21(4)
Julian of Norwich
25(4)
From Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s)
26(3)
Catherine of Siena
29(3)
``Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena'' (1376)
30(2)
Christine de Pizan
32(11)
From The Book of the City of Ladies (1404)
33(10)
Margery Kempe
43(5)
From The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
44(4)
Queen Elizabeth I
48(2)
``To the Troops at Tilbury'' (1588)
49(1)
Jane Anger
50(11)
From Jane Anger Her Protection for Women ... (1589)
51(10)
Rachel Speght
61(5)
From A Mouzzel for Melastomus (1617)
62(4)
Margaret Fell
66(5)
From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666)
67(4)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
71(8)
From ``La Respuesta'' (1691)
72(7)
Mary Astell
79(5)
From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
80(4)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
84(5)
``Letter to Lady Bute'' (1753)
85(4)
Belinda
89(3)
``Petition of an African Slave'' (1782)
90(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft
92(14)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
93(13)
Cherokee Woman
106(3)
``Cherokee Women Address Their Nation'' (1817)
107(2)
Maria W. Stewart
109(5)
``Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall'' (1832)
110(4)
Sarah Grimke
114(5)
``Letter to Theodore Weld'' (1837)
115(4)
Angelina Grimke Weld
119(6)
``Address at Pennsylvania Hall'' (1838)
120(5)
Margaret Fuller
125(13)
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
126(12)
Seneca Falls Convention
138(5)
``Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions'' (1848)
139(4)
Sojourner Truth
143(4)
``Speech at the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio'' (1851)
144(3)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
147(4)
``We Are All Bound Up Together'' (1866)
148(3)
Susan B. Anthony
151(6)
From The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
152(5)
Sarah Winnemucca
157(6)
From Life Among the Piutes (1883)
158(5)
Anna Julia Cooper
163(8)
``The Higher Education of Women'' (1892)
164(7)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
171(8)
From ``The Solitude of Self'' (1892)
172(7)
Fannie Barrier Williams
179(9)
From ``The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation'' (1893)
180(8)
Ida B. Wells
188(16)
``Lynch Law in All its Phases'' (1893)
189(15)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
204(7)
From Women and Economics (1898)
205(6)
Gertrude Buck
211(7)
``The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory'' (1900)
212(6)
Mary Augusta Jordan
218(5)
From Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)
219(4)
Margaret Sanger
223(3)
``Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel'' (1914)
224(2)
Emma Goldman
226(7)
From ``Marriage and Love'' (1914)
227(6)
Alice Dunbar Nelson
233(4)
``Facing Life Squarely'' (1927)
234(3)
Dorothy Day
237(4)
``Memorial Day in Chicago'' (1937)
238(3)
Virginia Woolf
241(6)
``Professions for Women'' (1942)
242(5)
Zora Neale Hurston
247(5)
``Crazy for This Democracy'' (1945)
248(4)
Simone de Beauvoir
252(7)
From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952)
253(6)
Rachel Carson
259(3)
``A Fable for Tomorrow'' (1962)
260(2)
Fannie Lou Hamer
262(5)
``The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman'' (1971)
263(4)
Adrienne Rich
267(16)
``When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision'' (1971)
268(15)
Helene Cixous
283(8)
From ``Sorties'' (1975)
284(7)
Combahee River Collective
291(10)
``The Combahee River Collective Statement'' (1977)
292(9)
Audre Lorde
301(5)
``The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action'' (1977)
302(4)
Merle Woo
306(8)
``Letter to Ma'' (1980)
307(7)
Alice Walker
314(9)
``In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens'' (1983)
315(8)
Evelyn Fox Keller
323(7)
From A Feeling for the Organism (1983)
324(6)
Andrea Dworkin
330(10)
``I Want A Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape'' (1983)
331(9)
Paula Gunn Allen
340(16)
``Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America'' (1986)
341(15)
Gloria Anzaldua
356(10)
``How to Tame a Wild Tongue'' (1987)
357(9)
June Jordan
366(11)
``Don't You Talk About My Momma!'' (1987)
367(10)
Trinh T. Minh-ha
377(5)
From Woman, Native, Other (1989)
378(4)
Bell Hooks
382(9)
``Homeplace (a site of resistance)'' (1990)
383(8)
Nancy Mairs
391(10)
``Carnal Acts'' (1990)
392(9)
Terry Tempest Williams
401(8)
``The Clan of One-Breasted Women'' (1991)
402(7)
Patricia Williams
409(7)
``The Death of the Profane'' (1991)
410(6)
Toni Morrison
416(8)
``The Nobel Lecture in Literature'' and ``The Acceptance Speech'' (1993)
417(7)
Minnie Bruce Pratt
424(11)
``Gender Quiz'' (1995)
425(10)
Dorothy Allison
435(19)
From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)
436(18)
Nomy Lamm
454(8)
``It's a Big Fat Revolution'' (1995)
455(7)
Leslie Marmon Silko
462(9)
``Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit'' (1996)
463(8)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
471(7)
From United States v. Virginia et al. (1996)
472(6)
Ruth Behar
478(11)
``Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart'' (1996)
479(10)
Gloria Steinem
489(6)
``Supremacy Crimes'' (1999)
491(4)
Appendix A: Alternative/Rhetorical Table of Contents 495(15)
A Select Bibliography of Works on Women's Rhetorics 510(7)
Index 517

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