Listening to Their Voices

by Wertheimer, Molly Meijer

• ISBN13: 9781570031717
• ISBN10: 1570031711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

Fresh interpretations of women's speaking and writing throughout western history

"This remarkable collection is like a searchlight, sharply bringing into view the lives and careers of women rhetors otherwise hidden away from us. The essays focus on their skillful achievements in the face of obstacles. The result is an expanded view of rhetoric and its powers". -- James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis

Most traditional works of rhetorical history have excluded the activities of women, but Listening to Their Voices retrieves the voices of women who contributed to the rhetorical realm. The eighteen essays in the collection extend existing definitions of rhetoric and enrich conventional knowledge of rhetorical history.

In her introduction Molly Meijer Wertheimer traces the patriarchal nature of traditional rhetorical histories as well as the continuing debate about how best to write women into rhetoric's historical record. The volume's essays advance rhetorical theory by examining exceptional women rhetoricians and their unusual rhetorical practices

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Roses in the Snow	1	(18)
Molly Meijer Wertheimer
PART 1: MAKING DELICATE IMAGES	19	(70)
Locating Aspasia on the Rhetorical Map	19	(23)
Cheryl Glenn
On Liberty and Logic: The Collaboration of Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill	42	(27)
Virginia Allen
Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Contribution to The New Rhetoric	69	(20)
Barbara Warnick
PART 2: A SAMPLER OF RHETORICAL PRACTICES	89	(88)
The Rhetoric of Women in Pharaonic Egypt	89	(23)
Barbara S. Lesko
Roman Women in the History of Rhetoric and Oratory	112	(21)
Robert W. Cape Jr.
Women, Commerce, and Rhetoric in Medieval England	133	(17)
Malcolm Richardson
Black Women on the Speaker's Platform (1832-1899)	150	(27)
Shirley Wilson Logan
PART 3: AUTHORIZED BY FAITH	177	(78)
Dhuoda's Handbook for William and the Mother's Manual Tradition	177	(22)
Clella I. Jaffe
The Visionary Rhetoric of Hildegard of Bingen	199	(16)
Julia Dietrich
Women, Rhetoric, and Letter Writing: Marguerite d' Alencon's Correspondence with Bishop Briconnet of Meaux	215	(18)
Laurel Carrington
Women's Voices and Women's Silence in the Tradition of Early Methodism	233	(22)
Vicki Tolar Collins
PART 4: WOMEN'S INTELLECTUAL DESIRES	255	(50)
Aspiring to the Rhetorical Tradition: A Study of Margaret Cavendish	255	(17)
Christine Mason Sutherland
Ethos, Authority, and Virtue for Seventeenth-Century Women Writers: The Case of Bathsua Makin's An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673)	272	(16)
Nancy Weitz Miller
A Women's Inventive Response to the Seventeenth-century Querelle des Femmes	288	(17)
Ekaterina V. Haskins
PART 5: APPROPRIATING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION	305	(54)
"As Becomes a Rational Women to Speak": Madeleine de Scudery's Rhetoric of Conversation	305	(15)
Jane Donawerth
The Uses and Problems of a "Manly" Rhetoric: Mary Wollstonecraft's Adaptation of Hugh Blair's Lectures in Her Two Vindications	320	(17)
Julia Allen
Textbooks for New Audiences: Women's Revisions of Rhetorical Theory at the Turn of the Century	337	(22)
Jane Donawerth
EPILOGUE The Future of Feminist Rhetorical Criticism	359	(22)
Diane Helene Miller
Contributors	381	(4)
Index	385