Vote and voice : women's organizations and political literacy, 1915-1930 / Wendy B. Share.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharer, Wendy B.

Series:

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--United States.

Women.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

League of Women Voters (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2004.

Summary:

Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent postsuffrage 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. Vote and Voice is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement. During those years, women still did not have power within deliberative and administ

Contents:

Before suffrage : rhetorical practices of civic engagement

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom : rhetorical practices of a new internationalism

"We must make enormous propaganda" : the WILPF and public opinion for peace

Seeking full measure : the League of Women Voters and partisan political communication

Rhetorical education for political influence : the LWV and political literacy

Learning from the strategies and struggles of the LWV and WILPF.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8093-8768-9

OCLC:

855906244