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Praising Girls: The Rhetoric Of Young Women, 18951930 (Studies In Rhetorics And Feminisms),Used
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In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative writing projects, yearbook entries, and literary magazines, revealing how young women employed epideictic rhetorictraditionally used to praise and blame in ceremonial situationsto define their individual and collective identities. Many girls, Wood argues, intervened rhetorically in national and international discourses on class, race, education, immigration, racism, and imperialism, confronting the gender politics that denigrated young women and often deprived them of positions of authority.The site of the studyKansas City, Missourireflects the diverse rhetorical experiences of girls in cities across the United States at the beginning of the last century. Four case studies examine the writing of privileged white girls at a college preparatory school, Native American girls at an offreservation boarding school, African American girls at a segregated high school, and working and middleclass girls at a large whitesonly public high school. Woods analysis reveals a contemporary concept of epideictic rhetoric that accounts for issues of gender, race, class, and age.
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