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

Rhetoric is “the good man speaking well.”

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“The angry matrons, led by Hortensia, address the triumvirs”

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Claiming the right to speak in the first place

Queen Elizabeth I at Tillsbury, addressing the troops

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Claiming the right to vote

Nancy Mace, 1st female graduate of the Citadel, 1999.

First female graduate of Bowdoin College, 1971.

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. . . to an education

Ida B. Wells 1883

Sojourner Truth

Then. . .

“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

. . . and now

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

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