Persuasive Acts - Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century

"In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's State Capitol and removed the Confederate flag, and the following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the State Capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first century women rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle's ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the "available means of persuasion." Women's persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies, and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress. Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-first Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts, including well-known figures like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that you may converse with them, extend them, and build rhetorics of your own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have gathered timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century"--

About the author

Shari J. Stenberg (Editor)
Shari Stenberg is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Charlotte Hogg (Editor)
Charlotte Hogg is associate professor of English at Texas Christian University.

Summary

Timely and provocative rhetorics representing critical issues of the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: HOGG STENBERG
• Assisted by: Charlotte Hogg (Editor), Shari Stenberg (Editor), Shari J. Stenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780822966135
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6613-5
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 227 mm x 153 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 688 g
• Illustrations: 15 b&w
• Series: Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Speech, Reden halten: Ratgeber, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric