DescriptionI say that even later someone will remember us.
--Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century.
But not without peril.
Sappho's writing remains only in fragments, partly due to the passage of time, but mostly as a result of systematic efforts to silence women's voices.
Sappho's hopeful boast captures the mission of this anthology: to gather together women engaged in the art of persuasion--across differences of race, class, sexual orientation, historical and physical locations--in order to remember that the rhetorical tradition indeed includes them.
Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians--from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century--a room of their own for the first time.
Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald do so in the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric.
Women whose voices are central to such scholarship are included here, such as Aspasia (a contemporary of Plato's), Margery Kempe, Margaret Fuller, and Ida B.
Wells.
Added are influential works on what it means to write as a woman--by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Nancy Mairs, Alice Walker, and H l ne Cixous.
Public manifestos on the rights of women by Hortensia, Mary Astell, Maria Stewart, Sarah and Angelina Grimk , Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, and Audre Lorde also join the discourse.
But Available Means searches for rhetorical tradition in less obvious places, too.
Letters, journals, speeches, newspaper columns, diaries, meditations, and a fable (Rachel Carson's introduction to Silent Spring) also find places in this room.
Such unconventional documents challenge traditional notions of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery, and blur the boundaries between public and private discourse.
Included, too, are writers whose voices have not been heard in any tradition.
Ritchie and.
| Anthology | To gather together women engaged in the art of persuasionacross differences of race class sexual orientation historical and physical locationsin order to remember that the rhetorical tradition indeed includes them |
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University Of Pittsburgh Press Available means: an anthology of women's rhetoric, paperback/joy ritchie
