Women and Rhetoric between the Wars

Contents

vii Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, Janet Zepernick Voluntary Associations for the Civic Scene 1. Continuous Mediation: Julia Grace Wales’s New Rhetoric 19 Wendy B. Sharer 2. The Hope for Peace and Bread 32 Hephzibah Roskelly 3. Gertrude Bonnin’s Transrhetorical Fight for Land Rights 48 Elizabeth Wilkinson 4. A Rhetor’s Apprenticeship: Reading Frances Perkins’s Rhetorical Autobiography 63 Janet Zepernick 5. Working Together and Being Prepared: Early Girl Scouting as Citizenship Training 79 Sarah Hallenbeck Popular Celebrity in the Epideictic Scene 6. Reading Helen Keller 97 Ann George 7. Dorothy Day: Personalizing (to) the Masses 114 M. Elizabeth Weiser 8. The Shocking Morality of Nannie Helen Burroughs 129 Sandra L. Robinson 9. Bessie Smith’s Blues as Rhetorical Advocacy 143 Coretta Pittman 10. Traditional Form, Subversive Function: Aunt Molly Jackson’s Labor Struggles 159 Cassandra Parente 11. Sweethearts of the Skies 175 Sara Hillin Academia and the Scene of Professionalism 12. Field Guides: Women Writing Anthropology 193 Risa Applegarth 13. “Have We Not a Mind Like They?”: Jovita González on Nation and Gender 209 Kathy Jurado 14. “Exceptional Women”: Epideictic Rhetoric and Women Scientists 223 Jordynn Jack 15. “Long I Followed Happy Guides”: Activism, Advocacy, and English Studies 240 Kay Halasek Works Cited 263 Contributors 283 Index 287 viii contents ...