03648nam 2200625 a 450 991046406460332120210705125333.00-8173-8482-0(CKB)3170000000047008(EBL)835671(OCoLC)772460320(SSID)ssj0000591015(PQKBManifestationID)11363993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591015(PQKBWorkID)10671985(PQKB)10837126(MiAaPQ)EBC835671(MdBmJHUP)muse9113(Au-PeEL)EBL835671(CaPaEBR)ebr10527737(EXLCZ)99317000000004700820100430d2010 uy 0engurun#---uuuuutxtccrThe house of my sojourn[electronic resource] rhetoric, women, and the question of authority /Jane S. SuttonTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20101 online resource (232 p.)Rhetoric, culture, and social critiqueDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1715-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: scraping the roof -- In the palindrome of the <CIVIC> -- What time o' night it is -- The path : then -- The building : of the future -- Speakers as we might be : now -- Walking the Milky Way.Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton's central argument is that all attempts to include women in rhetoric exclude them from meaningful authority in due course, and this exclusion has been built into the foundations of rhetoric. Drawing on personal experience, the spatial tropes of ancient Greek architecture, and the and the study of women who attained significant places in the house of rhetoric, Sutton highlights a number of decisive turns where women were able to increase their rhetorical access but were not able to achieve full authority, among them the work of Frances Wright, Lucy Stone, and suffragists Mott, Anthony, and Stanton; a visit to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where the busts that became the Portrait Monument were displayed in the Woman's Building (a sideshow, in essence); and a study of working-class women employed as telephone operators in New York in 1919. With all the undeniable successes--socially, politically, and financially-- of modern women, it appears that women are now populating the house of rhetoric as never before. But getting in the house and having public authority once inside are not the same thing. Sutton argues that women "can only act as far as the house permits." Sojourn calls for a fundamental change in the very foundations of rhetoric.Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.WomenIntellectual lifeWomenSocial conditionsRhetoricCommunication and cultureElectronic books.WomenIntellectual life.WomenSocial conditions.Rhetoric.Communication and culture.305.4201Sutton Jane S1041050MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464064603321The house of my sojourn2464328UNINA