Synopses & Reviews
From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U.S. women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives their voices new recognition. Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. All were ground breakers--suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers.
The volume opens with Campbell's introduction and then provides extensive essays on each of the women included. Each entry begins with brief biographical information and then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric. Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.
Review
Essays are well researched and well written. Useful for undergraduate or graduate students of communication, this sourcebook is an excellent tool for anyone interested in women's role in US history.Choice
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As excellent as the individual rhetorical "portraits" are, I have already found this book indispensable because of the closing structure of each essay. A volume written for researchers by researchers,... I recommend that this 2-volume set be placed at the top of every acquisition list. Certainly, these will be the most thumbed through and loaned out books in your own office. Karlyn Campbell says in her introduction, "Happily, scholarship is never finished; these volumes will have achieved their end if they stimulate the study of other women rhetors and encourage further study of the women described in the pages that follow." This book has easily achieved its aim.Quarterly Journal of Speech
Synopsis
From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U.S. women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives their voices new recognition. Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. All were ground breakers--suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers. The volume opens with Campbell's introduction and then provides extensive essays on each of the women included. Each entry begins with brief biographical information and then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric. Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.
Synopsis
This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them.
About the Author
KARLYN KOHRS CAMPBELL is Professor in the Department of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Abbreviations
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Belva Bennett Lockwood
Clara Bewick Colby
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Laura Clay
Mary Clyens Lease
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Voltairine de Cleyre
Anna E. Dickinson
Mary Dreier Robins
Rosa Fassel Sonneschein
Emma Goldman
Angelina Grimke Weld
Sarah M. Grimke
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Emma Hart Willard
Clarina Howard Nichols
Helen Jackson Gougar
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Florence Kelley
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt
Maria W. Miller Stewart
Ernestine Potowski Rose
Kate Richards O'Hare
Deborah Sampson Gannett
Abigail Scott Duniway
Anna Howard Shaw
Sojourner Truth
Julia Ward Howe
Catharine Waugh McCulloch
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Frances E. Willard
Contributors
Index