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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead - Contributions by Karrin Vasby Anderson; Catherine Dobris; Nichola D. Gutgold; Emily Plec; Kristina Horn Sheeler and C Brant Short Klappentext Using a variety of critical methods, the contributing authors of Telling Political Lives demonstrate the ways in which the autobiographies of U.S. women leaders provide arguments that both reveal and shape perceptions of politics, empowerment, and ideology in the United States. Zusammenfassung Using a variety of critical methods! the contributing authors of Telling Political Lives demonstrate the ways in which the autobiographies of U.S. women leaders provide arguments that both reveal and shape perceptions of politics! empowerment! and ideology in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 1. Women's Autobiography as Political Discourse Chapter 6 2. Getting from There to Here: Political Rhetoric and African American Orality inBarbara Jordan: A Self Portrait Chapter 7 3. From Housework to House Work: The Political Autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder Chapter 8 4. The "Feisty" Feminist from Queens: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of the Autobiographies of Geraldine Ferraro Chapter 9 5. Just Like "Azaleas in the Spring": Elizabeth Dole as a Daughter of the South Chapter 10 6. All Our Relations: Wilma Mankiller's Rhetoric of Feminist Ecology and Indian Sovereignty Chapter 11 7. The Personal is Political: Negotiating Publicity and Privacy in Hillary Rodham Clinton'sLiving History Chapter 12 8. Madeleine Albright and the Rhetoric ofMadame Secretary Chapter 13 9. Finding the Sensible Center: Christine Todd Whitman'sIt's My Party Too as Activist Autobiography Chapter 14 Conclusion Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index Chapter 17 About the Contributors
