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Women’s Rhetoric(s)

Women’s Rhetoric(s). A study of the means of persuasion available to women. “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” – Aristotle, Rhetoric. Oratory is “the good man speaking well.”— Quintilian.

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Women’s Rhetoric(s)

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  1. Women’s Rhetoric(s) A study of the means of persuasion available to women.

  2. “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” – Aristotle, Rhetoric

  3. Oratory is “the good man speaking well.”—Quintilian

  4. Rhetoric is “the good man speaking well.” wo

  5. “The angry matrons, led by Hortensia, address the triumvirs” Claiming the right to speak in the first place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensia_(orator)

  6. Queen Elizabeth I at Tillsbury, addressing the troops Google Images

  7. Claiming the right to vote Google Images

  8. . . . to an education First female graduate of Bowdoin College, 1971. Nancy Mace, 1st female graduate of the Citadel, 1999. Google Images

  9. Ida B. Wells 1883 Then. . . Sojourner Truth

  10. “Being a writer, she thinks of language partly as a system, partly as a living thing over which one has control, but mostly as agency—as an act with consequences” – Toni Morrison

  11. . . . and now

  12. “To be equal was still confused with sounding the same.” – Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence.

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