Practicing Citizenship - Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

Explores women's conceptions of citizenship as articulated in their speeches at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Illustrates how, in addition to working for their own enfranchisement, women also modeled practices of democratic citizenship beyond the ballot.

About the author

Kristy Maddux is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland. She is the author of the award-winning book The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic Identities.

Summary

Explores women’s conceptions of citizenship as articulated in their speeches at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Illustrates how, in addition to working for their own enfranchisement, women also modeled practices of democratic citizenship beyond the ballot.

Product details

• Authors: Kristy Maddux, Kristy (Associate Professor Maddux, Maddux Kristy
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2019
• EAN: 9780271083506
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08350-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation; Rhetoric and Democratic Delibe; Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation; Rhetoric and Democratic Delibe
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Communication Studies, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics