Lives of their own : rhetorical dimensions in autobiographies of women activists

Author(s)

• Watson, Martha

Bibliographic Information

Lives of their own : rhetorical dimensions in autobiographies of women activists

Martha Watson

（Studies in rhetoric/communication）

University of South Carolina Press, c1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-144) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA64031802
• ISBN:
  • 1570032009
• LCCN: 97045361
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbia, S.C.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 149 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : CT25
  • DC21 : 809/.93592072
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Autobiography -- Women authors
  • LCSH : Biography as a literary form
  • LCSH : Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : English language -- United States -- Rhetoric
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305158