Heather Ostman

American Women Activists and Autobiography (eBook, ePUB)

Rhetorical Lives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the feminist rhetorics that emerge in six very different activists' autobiographies, as they simultaneously tell the stories of unconventional women's lives and manifest the authors' arguments for social and political change, as well as provide blueprints for creating shifts in American society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000467956
• Artikelnr.: 62598966

Autorenporträt

Heather Ostman is the author or editor of multiple books, including Kate Chopin and Catholicism (2020). She teaches English at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY, where she also serves as Director of the Humanities Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives
1 The Progressive Cassandra: Rhetoric in Jane Addam's Twenty Years at
Hull-House 2 Anarchism and the Rhetoric of Womanhood: Emma Goldman's
Living My Life 3 Dorothy Day and the Rhetoric of Paradox 4 Angela Davis: An
Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Race Consciousness 5 Rhetorical
Sovereignty and the Gendered Body in Mary Crow Dog's Lakota Woman 6 Betty
Friedan's Life So Far and New Activist Paradigms