Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America

About the Author, About the Series, Other Works in the Series, Back Cover

Carolyn Skinner is an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University. She has published essays in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Technical Communication Quarterly. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms seeks to address the interdisciplinarity that rhetorics and feminisms represent. Rhetorical and feminist scholars want to connect rhetorical inquiry with contemporary academic and social concerns, exploring rhetoric’s relevance to current issues of opportunity and diversity. This interdisciplinarity has already begun to transform the rhetorical tradition as we have known it (upper-class, agonistic, public, and male) into regendered, inclusionary rhetorics (democratic, dialogic, collaborative, cultural, and private). Our intellectual advancements depend on such ongoing transformation. Rhetoric, whether ancient, contemporary, or futuristic, always inscribes the relation of language and power at a particular moment, indicating who may speak, who may listen, and what can be said. The only way we can displace the traditional rhetoric of masculine-only, public performance is to replace it with rhetorics that are recognized as being better suited to our present needs. We must understand more fully the rhetorics of the non-Western tradition, of women, of a variety of cultural and ethnic groups. Therefore, Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms espouses a theoretical position of openness and expansion, a place for rhetorics to grow and thrive in a symbiotic relationship with all that feminisms have to offer, particularly when these two fields intersect with philosophical, sociological, religious, psychological, pedagogical, and literary issues. The series seeks scholarly works that both examine and extend rhetoric, works that span the sexes, disciplines, cultures, ethnicities, and sociocultural practices as they intersect with the rhetorical tradition. After all, the recent resurgence of rhetorical studies has been not so much a discovery of new rhetorics as a recognition of existing rhetorical activities and practices, of our newfound ability and willingness to listen to previously untold stories. The series editors seek both high-quality traditional and cutting-edge scholarly work that extends the significant relationship between rhetoric and feminism within various genres, cultural contexts, historical periods, methodologies, theoretical positions, and methods of delivery (e.g., film and hypertext to elocution and preaching). Queries and submissions: Professor Cheryl Glenn, Editor E-mail: cjg6@psu.edu Professor Shirley Wilson Logan, Editor E-mail: slogan@umd.edu Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Department of English 142 South Burrowes Bldg. Penn State University University Park, PA 16802-6200 Other Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series A Feminist Legacy The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck Suzanne Bordelon Regendering Delivery The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors Lindal Buchanan Rhetorics of Motherhood Lindal Buchanan Conversational Rhetoric The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600–1900 Jane Donawerth Feminism beyond Modernism Elizabeth A. Flynn Women and Rhetoric between the Wars Edited by Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick Educating the New Southern Woman Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women’s Colleges, 1884–1945 David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs The Rhetoric of Rebel Women Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion Kimberly Harrison Evolutionary Rhetoric Sex, Science, and Free Love in Nineteenth-Century Feminism Wendy Hayden Liberating Voices Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers Karyn L. Hollis Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910 Nan Johnson Appropriate[ing] Dress Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America Carol Mattingly The Gendered Pulpit Preaching in American Protestant Spaces Roxanne Mountford Rhetorical Listening Identification, Gender, Whiteness Krista Ratcliffe Feminist Rhetorical Practices New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies Jacqueline J. Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch Vote and Voice Women’s Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915–1930 Wendy B. Sharer ...