02642nam 2200517Ia 450 991082384990332120230617034118.00-8093-8768-9(CKB)2550000001106343(EBL)1354669(OCoLC)855906244(MiAaPQ)EBC1354669(OCoLC)859155965(MdBmJHUP)muse30110(Au-PeEL)EBL1354669(CaPaEBR)ebr10739202(CaONFJC)MIL506701(EXLCZ)99255000000110634320040227d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVote and voice[electronic resource] women's organizations and political literacy, 1915-1930 /Wendy B. ShareCarbondale Southern Illinois University Pressc20041 online resource (238 p.)Studies in rhetorics and feminismsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2750-3 1-299-75450-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Before suffrage : rhetorical practices of civic engagement -- The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom : rhetorical practices of a new internationalism -- "We must make enormous propaganda" : the WILPF and public opinion for peace -- Seeking full measure : the League of Women Voters and partisan political communication -- Rhetorical education for political influence : the LWV and political literacy -- Learning from the strategies and struggles of the LWV and WILPF.Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent postsuffrage organizations-the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors. Vote and Voice is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement. During those years, women still did not have power within deliberative and administStudies in Rhetorics and FeminismsWomenPolitical activityUnited StatesWomenPolitical activity305.42/0973Sharer Wendy B1630140MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823849903321Vote and voice3968268UNINA