Refiguring rhetorical education [[electronic resource] ] : women teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a students, 1865-1911 / / Jessica Enoch

• Autore: Enoch Jessica
• Pubblicazione: Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 808/.042071
• Soggetto topico: English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States; Students with social disabilities - Education - United States; Women teachers - United States; Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States; Rhetoric - Social aspects - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-216) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Profession of a Woman; 2. Revising Rhetorical Education; 3. Resisting Scripts; 4. Claiming Cultural Citizenship; 5. New Visions, New Traditions; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. The volume analyzes Lydia Maria Child's The Freedmen's Book, a post-Civil War educational textbook for newly freed slaves; Zitkala Ša's autobiographical essays published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900 that questioned the work of off-reservation boarding schools
• Titolo autorizzato: Refiguring rhetorical education
• ISBN: 1-299-45468-2; 0-8093-8722-0; 1-4356-6359-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824283803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II