Gender and rhetorical space in American life, 1866-1910 / Nan Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Nan, 1951-

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--Women authors--History and criticism.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Feminism--United States--History.

Feminism.

Women orators--United States.

Women orators.

History.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--Women authors.

United States.

Physical Description:

220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, non-academic or "parlor" traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle-class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical behavior for women that required the performance of conventional femininity.

Contents:

Introduction: The Feminist Analysis of Rhetoric as a Cultural Site 1

1. Parlor Rhetoric and the Performance of Gender 19

2. Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space 48

3. "Dear Millie": Letter Writing and Gender in Postbellum America 77

4. Noble Maids Have Come to Town 109

5. Noble Maids and Eloquent Mothers, Off the Map 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.

ISBN:

0809324261

OCLC:

46858393