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Persuasive acts : women's rhetorics in the twenty-first century
Published 2020 by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.
ISBN 9780822966135
Bib Id 1064497
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cam a22 8i 4500
LCCN
2019-052163
ISBN
9780822966135 (paperback) $35.00
0822966131
Call #
814.08 P
Title
Persuasive acts : women's rhetorics in the twenty-first century
Publication Information
2020 by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Description
pages cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Gathering women's rhetorics for the twenty-first century -- Rhetorics of civic engagement -- Rhetorics of feminisms -- Rhetorics of protest and resistance -- Rhetorics of education -- Rhetorics of work and labor -- Rhetorics of identities and the body.
Summary
"In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's State Capitol and removed the Confederate flag, and the following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the State Capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first century women rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle's ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the "available means of persuasion." Women's persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies, and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress. Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-first Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts, including well-known figures like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that you may converse with them, extend them, and build rhetorics of your own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have gathered timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century"--
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