Lives of Their Own - Rhetorical Dimensions in Autobiographies of Women Activists

How five autobiographies became models for their cause.

Summary

Explores how five turn-of-the-century women - Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman and Mary Church Terrell - crafted autobiographies that became persuasive models for the women of their generation, and lead to movements for social change.

Product details

• Authors: Martha Watson
• Assisted by: Thomas W. Benson (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9781570032004
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-200-4
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biografien: Literatur, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Biography / Autobiography