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Title

Available means : an anthology of women's rhetoric(s) / edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald.

Publication

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ritchie, Joy S.
• Ronald, Kate.

Description

xxxi, 521 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Uniform Title

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Subject

• Speeches, addresses, etc > Women authors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [510]-516) and index.

Contents

• Aspasia. "Pericles' Funeral Oration" from Plato's Menexenus (c. 387-367 B.C.E.) -- Diotima. "On Love" from Plato's Symposium ( c. 360 B.C.E.) -- Hortensia. "Speech to the Triumvirs" (42 B.C.E.) -- Heloise. From "Letter I. Heloise to Abelard" (1132) -- Julian of Norwich. From Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s) -- Catherine of Siena. "Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena" (1376) -- Christine de Pizan. From The Book of the City of Ladies (1404) -- Margery Kempe. From The Book of Margery Kempe (1436) -- Queen Elizabeth I. "To the Troops at Tilbury" (1588) -- Jane Anger. From Jane Anger Her Protection for Women ... (1589) -- Rachel Speght. From A Mouzzel for Melastomus (1617) -- Margaret Fell. From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666) -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. From "La Respuesta" (1691) -- Mary Astell. From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. "Letter to Lady Bute" (1753) -- Belinda.
• "Petition of an African Slave" (1782) -- Mary Wollstonecraft. From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) -- Cherokee Women. "Cherokee Women Address Their Nation" (1817) -- Maria W. Stewart. "Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall" (1832) -- Sarah Grimke. "Letter to Theodore Weld" (1837) -- Angelina Grimke Weld. "Address at Pennsylvania Hall" (1838) -- Margaret Fuller. From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) -- Seneca Falls Convention. "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848) -- Sojourner Truth. "Speech at the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio" (1851) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. "We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866) -- Susan B. Anthony. From the United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873) -- Sarah Winnemucca. From Life Among the Piutes (1883) -- Anna Julia Cooper. "The Higher Education of Women" (1892) -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton. From "The Solitude of Self" (1892) -- Fannie Barrier Williams.
• From "The Intellectual progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" (1893) -- Ida B. Wells. "Lynch Law in All its Phases" (1893) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman. From Women and Economics (1898) -- Gertrude Buck. "The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" (1900) -- Mary Augusta Jordan. From Correct Writing and Speaking (1904) -- Margaret Sanger. "Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel" (1914) -- Emma Goldman. From "Marriage and Love" (1914) -- Alice Dunbar Nelson. "Facing Life Squarely" (1927) -- Dorothy Day. "Memorial Day in Chicago" (1937) -- Virginia Woolf. "Professions for Women" (1942) -- Zora Neale Hurston. "Crazy for This Democracy" (1945) -- Simone de Beauvoir. From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952) -- Rachel Carson. "A Fable for Tomorrow" (1962) -- Fannie Lou Hamer. "The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman" (1971) -- Adrienne Rich. "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1971) -- Helene Cixous.
• From "Sorties" (1975) -- Combahee River Collective. "The Combahee River Collective Statement" (1977) -- Audre Lorde. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1977) -- Merle Woo. "Letter to Ma" (1980) -- Alice Walker. "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" (1983) -- Evelyn Fox Keller. From A Feeling for the Organism (1983) -- Andrea Dworkin. "I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape" (1983) -- Paula Gunn Allen. "Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America" (1986) -- Gloria Anzaldua. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (1987) -- June Jordan. "Don't You Talk About My Momma!" (1987) -- Trinh T. Minh-ha. From Woman, Native, Other (1989) -- bell hooks. "Homeplace (as site of resistance)" (1990) -- Nancy Mairs. "Carnal Acts" (1990) -- Terry Tempest Williams. "The Clan of One-Breasted Women" (1991) -- Patricia Williams. "The Death of the Profane" (1991) -- Toni Morrison. "The Nobel Lecture in Literature" and "The Acceptance Speech" (1993) --
• Minnie Bruce Pratt. "Gender Quiz" (1995) -- Dorothy Allison. From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995) -- Nomy Lamm. "It's a Big Fat Revolution" (1995) -- Leslie Marmon Silko. "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" (1996) -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg. From United States v. Virginia et al. (1996) -- Ruth Behar. "Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" (1996) -- Gloria Steinem. "Supremacy Crimes" (1991).

ISBN

• 082294152X (alk. paper)
• 0822957531 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001002290

OCLC

• ocm46777387
• SCSB-4179738

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries