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OverviewCarol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for nineteenth-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and appearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric. Although crucial to women's effectiveness as speakers, Mattingly notes, appearance has been ignored because it was taken for granted by men. Because women rarely spoke in public before the nineteenth century, no guidelines existed regarding appropriate dress when they began to speak to audiences. Dress evoked immediate images of gender, an essential consideration for women speakers because of its strong association with place, locating women in the domestic sphere and creating a primary image that women speakers would work with - and against - throughout the century. Opposition to conspicuous change for women often necessitated the subtle transfer of comforting images when women sought to inhabit traditionally masculine spaces. The most successful women speakers carefully negotiated expectations by highlighting some conventions even as they broke others. Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America features twenty-five illustrations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carol MattinglyPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.279kg ISBN: 9780809324286ISBN 10: 0809324288 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 31 March 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAppropriate[ing] Dress is an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, with fascinating implications for the analysis of women's public speaking in all eras. Mattingly builds here upon her thorough knowledge of the period... drawing extensively on period illustrations and journalism. She concludes with provocative links to contemporary theoretical concerns in feminist rhetoric - a must-read for any student of women's rhetoric in any period! - Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross """Appropriate[ing] Dress is an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, with fascinating implications for the analysis of women's public speaking in all eras. Mattingly builds here upon her thorough knowledge of the period... drawing extensively on period illustrations and journalism. She concludes with provocative links to contemporary theoretical concerns in feminist rhetoric - a must-read for any student of women's rhetoric in any period!"" - Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross" Author InformationCarol Mattingly, director of the writing center at the University of Louisville, is the author of Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric and editor of Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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