LEADER 03308nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910790121103321 005 20230801222409.0 010 $a1-280-69722-9 010 $a9786613674180 010 $a0-8093-8630-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176447 035 $a(EBL)1354425 035 $a(OCoLC)856870168 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606279 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11391750 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606279 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10579809 035 $a(PQKB)10654133 035 $a(OCoLC)784949415 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354425 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10551770 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL367418 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176447 100 $a20110210d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConversational rhetoric$b[electronic resource] $ethe rise and fall of a women's tradition, 1600-1900 /$fJane Donawerth 210 $aCarbondale $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in rhetorics and feminisms 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-3027-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Humanist Dialogues and Defenses of Women's Education: Conversation as a Model for All Discourse -- Conduct Book Rhetoric: Constructing a Theory of Feminine Discourse -- Defenses of Women's Preaching: Dissenting Rhetoric and the Language of Women's Rights -- Elocution: Sentimental Culture and Performing Femininity -- Conclusion: Composition Textbooks by Women and the Decline of a Women's Tradition. 330 $aMuch of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres-humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and 410 0$aStudies in rhetorics and feminisms. 606 $aEnglish language$xDiscourse analysis 606 $aOral communication$zEngland 606 $aOral communication$zUnited States 606 $aRhetoric$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aRhetoric$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zEngland 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zUnited States 615 0$aEnglish language$xDiscourse analysis. 615 0$aOral communication 615 0$aOral communication 615 0$aRhetoric$xHistory. 615 0$aRhetoric$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xEducation 615 0$aWomen$xEducation 676 $a808.042082 676 $a808/.042082 700 $aDonawerth$b Jane$f1947-$0542807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790121103321 996 $aConversational Rhetoric$91080815 997 $aUNINA