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Women's Contribution To Rhetoric Throughout Western History, Like So Many Other Aspects Of Women's Experience, Has Yet To Be Fully Explored. In Pathbreaking Discussions Ranging From Ancient Greece, Through The Middle Ages And The Renaissance, To Modern Times, Sixteen Closely Coordinated Essays Examine How Women Have Used Language To Reflect Their Vision Of Themselves And Their Age; How They Have Used Traditional Rhetoric And Applied It To Women's Discourse; And How Women Have Contributed To Rhetorical Theory. Language Specialists, Feminists, And All Those Interested In Rhetoric, Composition, And Communication, Will Benefit From The Fresh And Stimulating Cross-disciplinary Insights They Offer. Foreword / James J. Murphy -- On Reclaiming Rhetorica / Andrea A. Lunsford -- Aspasia: Rhetoric, Gender, And Colonial Ideology / Susan Jarratt And Rory Ong -- A Lover's Discourse: Diotima, Logos, And Desire / C. Jan Swearingen -- Reexamining The Book Of Margery Kempe: A Rhetoric Of Autobiography / Cheryl Glenn -- Christine De Pisan And The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician And Her Rhetoric / Jenny R. Redfern -- Mary Astell: Reclaiming Rhetorica In The Seventeenth Century /

Author

Andrea A. Lunsford, editor

Publisher

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822955535

Subjects

Language Learning, Science, History

Rating

3.76 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14