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Overview“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho’s writing remains only in fragments, partly due to the passage of time, but mostly as a result of systematic efforts to silence women’s voices. Sappho’s hopeful boast captures the mission of this anthology: to gather together women engaged in the art of persuasion—across differences of race, class, sexual orientation, historical and physical locations—in order to remember that the rhetorical tradition indeed includes them. Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald do so in the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women’s rhetoric. Women whose voices are central to such scholarship are included here, such as Aspasia (a contemporary of Plato’s), Margery Kempe, Margaret Fuller, and Ida B. Wells. Added are influential works on what it means to write as a woman—by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Nancy Mairs, Alice Walker, and Hélène Cixous. Public “manifestos” on the rights of women by Hortensia, Mary Astell, Maria Stewart, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, and Audre Lorde also join the discourse. But Available Means searches for rhetorical tradition in less obvious places, too. Letters, journals, speeches, newspaper columns, diaries, meditations, and a fable (Rachel Carson’s introduction to Silent Spring) also find places in this room. Such unconventional documents challenge traditional notions of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery, and blur the boundaries between public and private discourse. Included, too, are writers whose voices have not been heard in any tradition. Ritchie and Ronald seek to “unsettle” as they expand the women’s rhetorical canon. Arranged chronologically, Available Means is designed as a classroom text that will allow students to hear women speaking to each other across centuries, and to see how women have added new places from which arguments can be made. Each selection is accompanied by an extensive headnote, which sets the reading in context. The breadth of material will allow students to ask such questions as “How might we define women’s rhetoric? How have women used and subverted traditional rhetoric?” A topical index at the end of the book provides teachers a guide through the rhetorical riches. Available Means will be an invaluable text for rhetoric courses of all levels, as well as for women’s studies courses. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joy S. Ritchie , Kate RonaldPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780822957539ISBN 10: 0822957531 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 12 July 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsThis volume adds greatly to rhetorical thought and history . . . Most importantly, though, is not only that these essays present an important contribution to thetorical tradition but it expands the canon by representing essays not previously over-anthologized. Feminist Academic Press Column This volume adds greatly to rhetorical thought and history . . . Most importantly, though, is not only that these essays present an important contribution to thetorical tradition but it expands the canon by representing essays not previously over-anthologized. -- Feminist Academic Press Column This volume adds greatly to rhetorical thought and history . . . Most importantly, though, is not only that these essays present an important contribution to thetorical tradition but it expands the canon by representing essays not previously over-anthologized. </p> --<i>Feminist Academic Press Column</i></p> This volume adds greatly to rhetorical thought and history . . . Most importantly, though, is not only that these essays present an important contribution to thetorical tradition but it expands the canon by representing essays not previously over-anthologized. </p> <i>Feminist Academic Press Column</i></p> Author InformationJoy Ritchie teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, rhetoric, and women's studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was coordinator of composition from 1995-2000 and is currently director of Women's Studies. Her most recent book, c Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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