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Illuminates the pedagogical contributions of three newspaperwomen to show how the field became a dynamic site of public participation, relationship building, education, and activism in the 1880s and 1890s.

Over a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.

In this interdisciplinary study, Flynn defines feminist traditions broadly, situating her discussions within the contexts of literary studies, rhetoric and composition while simultaneously exploring the troubled relationship between these fields.

In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching, Roxanne Mountford explores the relationship between bodies, space, race and gender in the rhetorical performance and American Protestant culture. She examines the strategies of three contemporary women preachers.

Collects and contextualizes thirty-four primary writings of understudied revolutionary mexicana rhetors and social activists who published with presses within the United States and Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of cross-border revolutionary upheaval and change.

Explores women's complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women's efforts at taking on new kinds of work.

Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre-Civil War American discourse. Wendy Dasler Johnson considers the logos, ethos, and pathos of poems by Frances Watkins Harper, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Julia Ward Howe.

Synthesizes three decades of scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical model for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humour, lying, or intention. Using irony as a form of ideological disruption, this innovative approach allows scholars to challenge simplistic narratives of who harmed, and who was harmed throughout rhetorical history.

Redefines the concept of ethos - classically thought of as character or credibility - as ecological and feminist, negotiated and renegotiated, and implicated in shifting power dynamics. Building on previous feminist and rhetorical scholarship, this essay collection presents a sustained discussion of the unique methods by which women's ethos is constructed and transformed.

Explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors.