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Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America
(Part of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series)
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Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for nineteenth-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and appearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric. Although crucial to women's effectiveness as speakers, Mattingly notes, appearance has been ignored because it was taken for granted by men. Because women rarely spoke in public before...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809324288
ISBN13:9780809324286
Release Date:March 2002
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.4" x 8.7"
Related Subjects
19th Century Classics Criticism & Theory Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Language Arts Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences Public Speaking Rhetoric Social Sciences Women in History Women Writers Women's Studies Words, Language & GrammarCustomer Reviews
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