The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
ISBN......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 8
PLENARY ADDRESS......Page 14
Women in the History of Rhetoric: The Past and the Future......Page 16
GROUP 1 EXCLUDED FROM THE RHETORICAL TRADITION......Page 40
Plato\'s Women: Alternative Embodiments of Rhetoric......Page 42
Cutting off the Memory of Women......Page 54
GROUP 2 ALONGSIDE THE RHETORICAL TRADITION......Page 64
Ethos over Time: The Ongoing Appeal of St. Catherine of Siena......Page 66
Verbum inuisibile palpabitur: Les Sibylles dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle: La répétition comme poétique de l\'oracle......Page 80
Verbum inuisibile palpabitur: The Sibyls in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century: Repetition as Oracular Poetics......Page 92
English Emblem Book Reception Theory and the Meditations of Renaissance Women......Page 104
Account of the Experience of Hester Ann Rogers: Rhetorical Functions of a Methodist Mystic\'s Journal......Page 116
GROUP 3 PARTICIPATING IN THE RHETORICAL TRADITION......Page 126
Women and Latin Rhetoric from Hrotsvit to Hildegard......Page 128
Lady Mary Wroth\'s Urania and the Rhetoric of Female Abuse......Page 140
Mary Astell\'s Rhetorical Theory: A Woman\'s Viewpoint......Page 154
GROUP 4 EMERGING INTO THE RHETORICAL TRADITION......Page 166
The Public Woman: Women Speakers Around the Turn of the Century in Sweden......Page 168
Flora MacDonald Denison and the Rhetoric of the Early Women\'s Suffrage Movement in Canada......Page 180
Resisting Decline Stories: Gertrude Buck\'s Democratic Theory of Rhetoric......Page 190
GROUP 5 ENGAGING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION......Page 204
Re-inventing Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway\'s and Nicole Brossard\'s Embodied Visions......Page 206
Feminist Epistemologies, Rhetorical Traditions and the Ad Hominem......Page 220
Voice and the Inevitability of Ethos......Page 232
Feminist Thoughts on Rhetoric......Page 244
AFTERWORD......Page 256
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 264
INDEX......Page 270