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by: Ritchie, Joy S.; Ronald, Kate

Available Means

by: Ritchie, Joy S.; Ronald, Kate

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9780822957539
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Copyright: 07/12/2001
Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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Available Meansoffers seventy women rhetoricians-from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century-a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of womenrs"s rhetoric.

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

Aspasia

(8)

``Pericles' Funeral Oration'' from Plato's Menexenus (c. 387--367 B.C.E.)

(7)

Diotima

(7)

``On Love'' from Plato's Symposium (c. 360 B.C.E.)

(6)

Hortensia

(4)

``Speech to the Triumvirs'' (42 B.C.E.)

(3)

Heloise

(5)

From ``Letter I. Heloise to Abelard'' (1132)

(4)

Julian of Norwich

(4)

From Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s)

(3)

Catherine of Siena

(3)

``Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena'' (1376)

(2)

Christine de Pizan

(11)

From The Book of the City of Ladies (1404)

(10)

Margery Kempe

(5)

From The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)

(4)

Queen Elizabeth I

(2)

``To the Troops at Tilbury'' (1588)

(1)

Jane Anger

(11)

From Jane Anger Her Protection for Women ... (1589)

(10)

Rachel Speght

(5)

From A Mouzzel for Melastomus (1617)

(4)

Margaret Fell

(5)

From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666)

(4)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

(8)

From ``La Respuesta'' (1691)

(7)

Mary Astell

(5)

From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)

(4)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(5)

``Letter to Lady Bute'' (1753)

(4)

Belinda

(3)

``Petition of an African Slave'' (1782)

(2)

Mary Wollstonecraft

(14)

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

(13)

Cherokee Woman

106

(3)

``Cherokee Women Address Their Nation'' (1817)

107

(2)

Maria W. Stewart

109

(5)

``Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall'' (1832)

110

(4)

Sarah Grimke

114

(5)

``Letter to Theodore Weld'' (1837)

115

(4)

Angelina Grimke Weld

119

(6)

``Address at Pennsylvania Hall'' (1838)

120

(5)

Margaret Fuller

125

(13)

From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

126

(12)

Seneca Falls Convention

138

(5)

``Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions'' (1848)

139

(4)

Sojourner Truth

143

(4)

``Speech at the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio'' (1851)

144

(3)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

147

(4)

``We Are All Bound Up Together'' (1866)

148

(3)

Susan B. Anthony

151

(6)

From The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)

152

(5)

Sarah Winnemucca

157

(6)

From Life Among the Piutes (1883)

158

(5)

Anna Julia Cooper

163

(8)

``The Higher Education of Women'' (1892)

164

(7)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

171

(8)

From ``The Solitude of Self'' (1892)

172

(7)

Fannie Barrier Williams

179

(9)

From ``The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation'' (1893)

180

(8)

Ida B. Wells

188

(16)

``Lynch Law in All its Phases'' (1893)

189

(15)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

204

(7)

From Women and Economics (1898)

205

(6)

Gertrude Buck

211

(7)

``The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory'' (1900)

212

(6)

Mary Augusta Jordan

218

(5)

From Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)

219

(4)

Margaret Sanger

223

(3)

``Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel'' (1914)

224

(2)

Emma Goldman

226

(7)

From ``Marriage and Love'' (1914)

227

(6)

Alice Dunbar Nelson

233

(4)

``Facing Life Squarely'' (1927)

234

(3)

Dorothy Day

237

(4)

``Memorial Day in Chicago'' (1937)

238

(3)

Virginia Woolf

241

(6)

``Professions for Women'' (1942)

242

(5)

Zora Neale Hurston

247

(5)

``Crazy for This Democracy'' (1945)

248

(4)

Simone de Beauvoir

252

(7)

From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952)

253

(6)

Rachel Carson

259

(3)

``A Fable for Tomorrow'' (1962)

260

(2)

Fannie Lou Hamer

262

(5)

``The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman'' (1971)

263

(4)

Adrienne Rich

267

(16)

``When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision'' (1971)

268

(15)

Helene Cixous

283

(8)

From ``Sorties'' (1975)

284

(7)

Combahee River Collective

291

(10)

``The Combahee River Collective Statement'' (1977)

292

(9)

Audre Lorde

301

(5)

``The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action'' (1977)

302

(4)

Merle Woo

306

(8)

``Letter to Ma'' (1980)

307

(7)

Alice Walker

314

(9)

``In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens'' (1983)

315

(8)

Evelyn Fox Keller

323

(7)

From A Feeling for the Organism (1983)

324

(6)

Andrea Dworkin

330

(10)

``I Want A Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape'' (1983)

331

(9)

Paula Gunn Allen

340

(16)

``Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America'' (1986)

341

(15)

Gloria Anzaldua

356

(10)

``How to Tame a Wild Tongue'' (1987)

357

(9)

June Jordan

366

(11)

``Don't You Talk About My Momma!'' (1987)

367

(10)

Trinh T. Minh-ha

377

(5)

From Woman, Native, Other (1989)

378

(4)

Bell Hooks

382

(9)

``Homeplace (a site of resistance)'' (1990)

383

(8)

Nancy Mairs

391

(10)

``Carnal Acts'' (1990)

392

(9)

Terry Tempest Williams

401

(8)

``The Clan of One-Breasted Women'' (1991)

402

(7)

Patricia Williams

409

(7)

``The Death of the Profane'' (1991)

410

(6)

Toni Morrison

416

(8)

``The Nobel Lecture in Literature'' and ``The Acceptance Speech'' (1993)

417

(7)

Minnie Bruce Pratt

424

(11)

``Gender Quiz'' (1995)

425

(10)

Dorothy Allison

435

(19)

From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)

436

(18)

Nomy Lamm

454

(8)

``It's a Big Fat Revolution'' (1995)

455

(7)

Leslie Marmon Silko

462

(9)

``Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit'' (1996)

463

(8)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

471

(7)

From United States v. Virginia et al. (1996)

472

(6)

Ruth Behar

478

(11)

``Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart'' (1996)

479

(10)

Gloria Steinem

489

(6)

``Supremacy Crimes'' (1999)

491

(4)

Appendix A: Alternative/Rhetorical Table of Contents

495

(15)

A Select Bibliography of Works on Women's Rhetorics

510

(7)

Index

517

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