Persuasive acts : women's rhetorics in the twenty-first century / Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stenberg, Shari J., editor.

Hogg, Charlotte, 1970- editor.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--Women authors--21st century.

American essays.

Speeches, addresses, etc--Women authors--21st century.

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Women--Language.

Women.

Feminist theory.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Women--Social conditions--21st century.

Women--Social conditions.

American essays--Women authors.

Women authors.

Physical Description:

xv, 478 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's State Capitol and removed the Confederate flag, and the following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the State Capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first century women rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle's ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the "available means of persuasion." Women's persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies, and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress. Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-first Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts, including well-known figures like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that you may converse with them, extend them, and build rhetorics of your own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have gathered timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Gathering women's rhetorics for the twenty-first century

Rhetorics of civic engagement

Rhetorics of feminisms

Rhetorics of protest and resistance

Rhetorics of education

Rhetorics of work and labor

Rhetorics of identities and the body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822966135

0822966131

OCLC:

1131870137