Rhetoric History and Women s Oratorical Education

2013-05-02

This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century ...

Author: David Gold

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135104948

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 268

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Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.
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Rhetoric History and Women s Oratorical Education

2013-05-02

Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, the chapters in this volume contribute substantially to the scholarly discourse on women's oratorical education and practice, expanding its ...

Author: David Gold

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135104955

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 256

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Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.
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Reforming Women

2019-01-22

Recent scholarship, including Jess Enoch's Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, ... Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak expand previous conceptions of women's ...

Author: Lisa J. Shaver

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN: 9780822986461

Category: History

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In Reforming Women, Lisa Shaver locates the emergence of a distinct women’s rhetoric and feminist consciousness in the American Female Moral Reform Society. Established in 1834, the society took aim at prostitution, brothels, and the lascivious behavior increasingly visible in America’s industrializing cities. In particular, female moral reformers contested the double standard that overlooked promiscuous behavior in men while harshly condemning women for the same offense. Their ardent rhetoric resonated with women across the country. With its widely-read periodical and auxiliary societies representing more than 50,000 women, the American Female Moral Reform Society became the first national reform movement organized, led, and comprised solely by women. Drawing on an in-depth examination of the group’s periodical, Reforming Women delineates essential rhetorical tactics including women’s strategic use of gender, the periodical press, anger, presence, auxiliary societies, and institutional rhetoric—tactics women’s reform efforts would use throughout the nineteenth century. Almost two centuries later, female moral reformers’ rhetoric resonates today as our society continues to struggle with different moral expectations for men and women.
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A Short History of Writing Instruction

2020-04-13

19 Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education; “Romantic Correspondence as Queer Extracurriculum: The Self-Education for Racial Uplift of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus.” College Composition and Communication 69.2 (2017) 184.

Author: James J. Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000053555

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 378

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This newly revised Thirtieth Anniversary edition provides a robust scholarly introduction to the history of writing instruction in the West from Ancient Greece to the present-day United States. It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional context of the Western rhetorical tradition. Its longitudinal approach enables students to track the recurrence over time of not only specific teaching methods, but also major issues such as social purpose, writing as power, the effect of technologies, orthography, the rise of vernaculars, writing as a force for democratization, and the roles of women in rhetoric and writing instruction. Each chapter provides pedagogical tools including a Glossary of Key Terms and a Bibliography for Further Study. In this edition, expanded coverage of twenty-first-century issues includes Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogy, pedagogy for multilingual writers, and social media. A Short History of Writing Instruction is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and the history of education.
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Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry

2021-09-21

Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women's Colleges, 1884–1945. Southern Illinois UP, 2014. ... Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education : American Women Learn to Speak. Routledge, 2013.

Author: Amy Dayton

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN: 9780822988182

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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The historiography of feminist rhetorical research raises ethical questions about whose stories are told and how. Women and other marginalized people have been excluded historically from many formal institutions, and researchers in this field often turn to alternative archives to explore how women have used writing and rhetoric to participate in civic life, share their lived experiences, and effect change. Such methods may lead to innovation in documenting practices that took place in local, grassroots settings. The chapters in this volume present a frank conversation about the ways in which feminist scholars engage in the work of recovering hidden rhetorics, and grapple with the ethical challenges raised by this recovery work.
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New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion

2021

“Learning Not to Preach: Evangelical Speaker Beth Moore and the Rhetoric of Constraint.” In Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak, edited by David Gold and Catherine Hobbs, 217–237.

Author: James W. Vining

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781793622839

Category: Rhetoric

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New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion reflects the complex and fluid natures of religion, rhetoric, and public life in our globalized, digital, and politically polarized world by bringing together a diverse group of rhetorical scholars to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking collection on rhetoric and religion. This volume addresses these topics in three separate sections: 1. Rhetorics of religion at work in public activism, 2. Rhetorics of religion in contemporary public discourse, and 3. Ways that rhetoric scholars study religion. Scholars of rhetoric, religion, and social sciences will find this book particularly interesting.
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Microhistories of Composition

2016-04-01

He teaches courses in public and professional writing as well as in rhetorical theory and criticism for the rhetoric and ... on the edited collection Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak.

Author: Bruce Mccomiskey

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

ISBN: 9781607324058

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 336

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Writing studies has been dominated throughout its history by grand narratives of the discipline, but in this volume Bruce McComiskey begins to explore microhistory as a way to understand, enrich, and complicate how the field relates to its past. Microhistory investigates the dialectical interaction of social history and cultural history, enabling historians to examine uncommon sites, objects, and agents of historical significance overlooked by social history and restricted to local effects by cultural history. This approach to historical scholarship is ideally suited for exploring the complexities of a discipline like composition. Through an introduction and eleven chapters, McComiskey and his contributors—including major figures in the historical research of writing studies, such as Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Kelly Ritter, and Neal Lerner—develop focused narratives of particular significant moments or themes in disciplinary history. They introduce microhistorical methodologies and illustrate their application and value for composition historians, contributing to the complexity and adding momentum to the emerging trend within writing studies toward a richer reading of the field’s past and future. Scholars and historians of both composition and rhetoric will appreciate the fresh perspectives on institutional and disciplinary histories and larger issues of rhetorical agency and engagement enacted in writing classrooms that are found in Microhistories of Composition. Other contributors include Cheryl E. Ball, Suzanne Bordelon, Jacob Craig, Matt Davis, Douglas Eyman, Brian Gogan, David Gold, Christine Martorana, Bruce McComiskey, Josh Mehler, Annie S. Mendenhall, Kendra Mitchell, Antony N. Ricks, David Stock, Kathleen Blake Yancey, Bret Zawilski, and James T. Zebroski.
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The Age of Charisma

2016-12-28

women.”184 Suffragists, temperance organizers, and other women leaders also advocated for an increased female presence on ... ed., Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak (New York: Routledge, ...

Author: Jeremy C. Young

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107114623

Category: History

Page: 337

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This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements.
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In the Archives of Composition

2015-12-18

Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools Lori Ostergaard, Henrietta Rix Wood ... Political Women: Language and Leadership (Lexington, 2013); Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education (Routledge, 2013); Rhetoric: ...

Author: Lori Ostergaard

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN: 9780822981015

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 232

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In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric’s history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing from a broad array of archival and documentary sources, the contributors provide accounts of writing instruction within contexts often overlooked by current historical scholarship. Topics range from the efforts of young women to attain rhetorical skills in an antebellum academy, to the self-reflections of Harvard University students on their writing skills in the 1890s, to a close reading of a high school girl’s diary in the 1960s that offers a new perspective on curriculum debates of this period. Taken together, the chapters begin to recover how high school students, composition teachers, and English education programs responded to institutional and local influences, political movements, and pedagogical innovations over a one-hundred-and-thirty-year span.
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Remembering Women Differently

2019-05-23

Refiguring Rhetorical Work Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Helen Gaillet Bailey ... Political Women: Language and Leadership; Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education; Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy; and Silence and Listening as ...

Author: Lynée Lewis Gaillet

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

ISBN: 9781611179804

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 292

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Before the full and honest tale of humanity can be told, it will be necessary to uncover the hidden roles of women in it and recover their voices from the forces that have diminished their contributions or even at times deliberately eclipsed them. The past half-century has seen women rise to claim their equal portion of recognition, and Remembering Women Differently addresses not only some of those neglected—it examines why they were deliberately erased from history. The contributors in this collection study the contributions of fourteen nearly forgotten women from around the globe working in fields that range from art to philosophy, from teaching to social welfare, from science to the military, and how and why those individuals became either marginalized or discounted in a mostly patriarchal world. These sterling contributors, scholars from a variety of disciplines—rhetoricians, historians, compositionists, and literary critics—employ feminist research methods in examining women's work, rhetorical agency, and the construction of female reputation. By recovering these voices and remembering the women whose contributions have made our civilization better and more whole, this work seeks to ensure that women's voices are never silenced again.
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