Women at work : rhetorics of gender and labor

Women at work rhetorics of gender and labor

This book presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women's labor evangelism in the textile industry, the rhetorical constructions of leadership within w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gold, David, 1966- editor (editor), Enoch, Jessica, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2019]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45010547*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Working Women in(to) Rhetorical History / Jessica Enoch and David Gold
  • Republicanism, Religiosity, and the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Reform in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830-1850 000 / Amy J. Wan
  • From Slave to Seamstress : Elizabeth Keckley's Rhetoric of Emotional Labor / Patty Wilde
  • Louisa May Alcott's Work : A New True Working Woman / Nancy Myers
  • "Opulent Friendships," Rhetorical Emulation, and Belletristic Instruction at Leache-Wood Seminary / Pamela Van Haitsma
  • Resituating Rhetorical Failure : The Case of Nineteenth-Century Metallurgist Carrie Everson / Sarah Hallenbeck
  • Professional Proof : Arguing for Women Photographers at the Fin de Siecle / Kristie S. Fleckenstein
  • Making Use of the Mundane : The Women's Trade Union League's Fight to Give Working Women a Voice / Marybeth Poder
  • Figuring Vice : Sex, Women, and Work in Kate Waller Barrett's Exhibitionist Rhetoric / Heather Brook Adams and Jason Barrett-Fox
  • Bodies of Praise : Epideictic Figures in the Independent Woman / Risa Applegarth
  • To Labor with Dignity : Alberta Hunter's Respectability and Resistance Rhetoric / Coretta M. Pittman
  • Profiting from Rhetorical Domesticity : Fashion Magnate Nell Donnelly Reed's Discursive Seams, 1916-1956 / Jane Greer
  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias's Rhetorical Branding : When It's Not Enough to Be the World's Greatest Woman Athlete / Lisa Shaver
  • In Rosie's Shadow : World War II Recruitment Rhetoric and Women's Work in Public Memory / Michelle Smith
  • "Other Peoples' Kitchens" : Invisible Labor and Militant Voice during the Early Cold War / Jennifer Keohane
  • Gossard Girls Are Good Girls : Labor Activism at a 1949 Garment Factory Strike / Carly S. Woods and Kristen Lucas.

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