Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in the Autobiographies of Women Activists (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) - Hardcover

Book 7 of 69: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication

Watson, Martha

 
9781570032004: Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in the Autobiographies of Women Activists (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1570032009 ISBN 13: 9781570032004
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

Explores how five turn-of-the-century women - Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman and Mary Church Terrell - crafted autobiographies that became persuasive models for the women of their generation, and lead to movements for social change.

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About the Author

Martha Watson is dean of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to joining the UNLV faculty in 1997, she was a professor of speech communication at the University of Maryland at College Park. A former editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Watson has written or edited three books about nineteenth-century women, including A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1845-1910.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1570032009
ISBN 13 
9781570032004
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
139