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Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise And Fall Of A Women'S Tradition, 16001900 (Studies In Rhetorics And Feminisms),Used
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Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized womens rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Womens Tradition, 16001900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genreshumanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of womens preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and pedagogy and argues that women constructed a theory of rhetoric based on conversation, not public speaking, as a model for all discourse.Donawerth traces the development of womens rhetorical theory through the voices of English and American women (and one muchtranslated French woman) over three centuries. She demonstrates how they cultivated theories of rhetoric centered on conversation that faded once women began writing composition textbooks for mixedgender audiences in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She recovers and elucidates the importance of the theories in dialogues and defenses of womens education by Bathsua Makin, Mary Astell, and Madeleine de Scudry; in conduct books by Hannah More, Lydia Sigourney, and Eliza Farrar; in defenses of womens preaching by Ellen Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Catherine Booth, and Frances Willard; and in elocution handbooks by Anna Morgan, Hallie Quinn Brown, Genevieve Stebbins, and Emily Bishop. In each genre, Donawerth explores facets of womens rhetorical theory, such as the recognition of the gendered nature of communication in conduct books, the incorporation of the language of womens rights in the defenses of womens preaching, and the adaptation of sentimental culture to the cultivation of womens bodies as tools of communication in elocution books.Rather than a linear history, Conversational Rhetoric follows the starts, stops, and starting over in womens rhetorical theory. It covers a broad range of womens rhetorical theory in the AngloAmerican world and places them in their social, rhetorical, and gendered historical contexts. This study adds womens rhetorical theory to the rhetorical tradition, advances our understanding of womens theories and their use of rhetoric, and offers a paradigm for analyzing the differences between mens and womens rhetoric from 1600 to 1900.
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