Women’s Rhetoric(s) A study of the means of persuasion available to women.
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Women’s Rhetoric(s)
A study of the means of persuasion available to women.
“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given
case the available means of persuasion.” –
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Oratory is “the good man speaking well.”—Quintilian
Rhetoric is “the good man speaking well.”
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“The angry matrons, led by Hortensia, address the triumvirs”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensia_(orator)
Claiming the right to speak in the first place
Queen Elizabeth I at Tillsbury, addressing the troops
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Claiming the right to vote
Nancy Mace, 1st female graduate of the Citadel, 1999.
First female graduate of Bowdoin College, 1971.
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. . . to an education
Ida B. Wells 1883
Sojourner Truth
Then. . .
“Being a writer, she thinks of language partly as a system, partly as a living thing over which one has control, but mostly as agency—as an act with consequences” – Toni Morrison
. . . and now
“To be equal was still confused with sounding the same.” – Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence.
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