Listening to Their Voices

by Wertheimer, Molly Meijer

• ISBN13: 9781570031724
• ISBN10: 157003172X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

Offering fresh interpretations of women's speaking and writing throughout western history, the 18 essays in this collection extend existing definitions of rhetoric and enrich conventional knowledge of rhetorical history. Covering a diverse range of rhetorical pursuits and historical eras, these selections look closely at the bold speech of ancient Egyptian women, commercial writings by women in the Middle Ages, and much more.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Roses in the Snow	p. 1
Locating Aspasia on the Rhetorical Map	p. 19
On Liberty and Logic: The Collaboration of Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill	p. 42
Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Contribution to The New Rhetoric	p. 69
The Rhetoric of Women in Pharaonic Egypt	p. 89
Roman Women in the History of Rhetoric and Oratory	p. 112
Women, Commerce, and Rhetoric in Medieval England	p. 133
Black Women on the Speaker's Platform (1832-1899)	p. 150
Dhuoda's Handbook for William and the Mother's Manual Tradition	p. 177
The Visionary Rhetoric of Hildegard of Bingen	p. 199
Women, Rhetoric, and Letter Writing: Marguerite d'Alencon's Correspondence with Bishop Briconnet of Meaux	p. 215
Women's Voices and Women's Silence in the Tradition of Early Methodism	p. 233
Aspiring to the Rhetorical Tradition: A Study of Margaret Cavendish	p. 255
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)	p. 272
A Woman's Inventive Response to the Seventeenth-century Querelle des Femmes	p. 288
"As Becomes a Rational Woman to Speak": Madeleine de Scudery's Rhetoric of Conversation	p. 305
The Uses and Problems of a "Manly" Rhetoric: Mary Wollstonecraft's Adaptation of Hugh Blair's Lecture in Her Two Vindications	p. 320
Textbooks for New Audiences: Women's Revisions of Rhetorical Theory at the Turn of the Century	p. 337
Epilogue: The Future of Feminist Rhetorical Criticism	p. 359
Contributors	p. 381
Index	p. 385
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