附註:"Papers at the Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric at the University of Saskatchewan in July 1997"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women in the history of rhetoric : the past and the future / Christine Mason Sutherland -- Plato's women : alternative embodiments of rhetoric / C. Jan Swearingen -- Cutting off the memory of women / Jody Enders -- Ethos over time : the ongoing appeal of St. Catherine of Siena / Margo Husby Scheelar -- Verbum inuisibile palpabitur : les sibylles dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle : la répétition comme poétique de l'oracle / Hélène Cazes -- Verbum inuisibile palpabitur : the sibyls in the second half of the fifteenth century : repetition as oracular poetics / Hélène Cazes, translated by Nicholas Fairbank -- English emblem book reception theory and the meditations of Renaissance women / Linda Bensel-Meyers -- Account of the experience of Hester Ann Rogers : rhetorical functions of a Methodist mystic's journal / Vicki Collins -- Women and Latin rhetoric from Hrotsvit to Hildegard / John Ward.
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the rhetoric of female abuse / Victor Skretkowicz -- Mary Astell's rhetorical theory : a woman's viewpoint / Erin Herberg -- The public woman : women speakers around the turn of the century in Sweden / Brigitte Mral, translated by Malcolm Forbes -- Flora MacDonald Denison and the rhetoric of the early women's suffrage movement in Canada / Andrea Williams -- Resisting decline stories : Gertrude Buck's democratic theory of rhetoric / Suzanne Bordelon -- Re-inventing rhetorical epistemology : Donna Haraway's and Nicole Brossard's embodied visions / Philippa Spoel -- Feminist epistemologies, rhetorical traditions and the ad hominem / Marianne Janack and John Adams -- Voice and the inevitability of ethos / Robert L. King -- Feminist thoughts on rhetoric / Lynette Hunter -- Afterword / Christine Mason Sutherland.
摘要:This collection of essays is the culmination of recent scholarship on the relationship of women to the rhetorical tradition, something which, for centuries, excluded them. Contributors to this timely volume include scholars from all across North America, Europe and Australia, and their work clearly demonstrates contemporary feminist modes of investigating traditional rhetorics.
