Available means : an anthology of women's rhetoric(s) / edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ronald, Kate.

Ritchie, Joy S.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc--Women authors.

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Aspasia--a contemporary of Plato--to Gloria Steinem, Available Means gathers the voices of women rhetoricians throughout history. The first anthology of primary texts in this tradition, this book expands the canon and demonstrates how women's writing and speaking has redefined and subverted traditional means of persuasion. "I say that even later someone will remember us," wrote Sappho in the sixthe century, B.C.E. Her prediction came true, not only for her own writing, but for that of hundreds of women over the past two and a half millennia. Seventy of them are represented in Available Means, including: Queen Elizabeth I, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Rachel Carson, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, and many more.

Contents:

"Pericles' Funeral Oration" from Plato's Menexenus / Aspasia

"On Love" from Plato's Symposium / Diotima

"Speech to the Triumvirs" / Hortensia

from "Letter I. Heloise to Abelard" / Heloise

from Revelations of Divine Love / Julian of Norwich

"Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena" / Catherine of Siena

from The Book of the City of Ladies / Christine De Pizan

from The Book of Margery Kempe / Margery Kempe

"To the Troops at Tilbury" / Queen Elizabeth I

from Jane Anger Her Protection for Women ... / Jane Anger

from A Mouzzel for Melastomus / Rachel Speght

from Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures / Margaret Fell

from "La Respuesta" / Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies / Mary Astell

"Letter To Lady Bute" / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"Petition of an African Slave" / Belinda

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft

"Cherokee Women Address Their Nation" / Cherokee Women

"Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall" / Maria W. Stewart

"Letter to Theodore Weld" / Sarah Grimke

"Address at Pennsylvania Hall" / Angelina Grimke Weld

from Woman in the Nineteenth Century / Margaret Fuller

"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" / Seneca Falls Convention

"Speech at the Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio" / Sojourner Truth

"We Are All Bound Up Together" / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

from The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony / Susan B. Anthony

from Life Among the Piutes / Sarah Winnemucca

"The Higher Education of Women" / Anna Julia Cooper

from "The Solitude of Self" / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

from "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" / Fanny Barrier Williams

'Lynch Law in All its Phases" / Ida B. Wells

from Women and Economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" / Gertrude Buck

from Correct Writing and Speaking / Mary Augusta Jordan

"Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel" / Margaret Sanger

from "Marriage and Love" / Emma Goldman

"Facing Life Squarely" / Alice Dunbar Nelson

"Memorial Day in Chicago" / Dorothy Day

"Professions for Women" / Virginia Woolf

"Crazy for This Democracy" / Zora Neale Hurston

from the Introduction to The Second Sex / Simone De Beauvoir

"A Fable for Tomorrow" / Rachel Carson

"The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman" / Fannie Lou Hamer

"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" / Adrienne Rich

from "Sorties" / Helene Cixous

"The Combahee River Collective Statement" / Combahee River Collective

"The Tranformation of Silence into Language and Action" / Audre Lorde

"Letter to Ma" / Merle Woo

"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" / Alice Walker

from A Feeling for the Organism / Evelyn Fox Keller

"I Want A Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There is No Rape" / Andrea Dworkin

"Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America" / Paula Gunn Allen

"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" / Gloria Anzaldua

"Don't You Talk About My Momma!" / June Jordan

from Woman, Natice, Other / Trinh T. Minh-ha

"Homeplace (a site of resistance)" / Bell Hooks

"Carnal Acts" / Nancy Mairs

"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" / Terry Tempest Williams

"The Death of the Profane" / Patricia Williams

"The Nobel Lecture in Literature" and "The Acceptance Speech" / Toni Morrison

"Gender Quiz" / Minnie Bruce Pratt

from Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison

"It's a Big Fat Revolution" / Nomy Lamm

"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" / Leslie Marmon Silko

From United States v. Virginia et al. / Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" / Ruth Behar

"Supremacy Crimes" / Gloria Steinem.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [510]-516) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822979753

0822979756

OCLC:

887803065