Lives of Their Own
Rhetorical Dimensions in the Autobiographies of Women Activists
Will be published approx. on 31. January 1999
Book
Hardback
139 pages
978-1-57003-200-4 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-200-4 (9781570032004)
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Martha Watson is dean of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to joining the UNLV faculty in 1997, she was a professor of speech communication at the University of Maryland at College Park. A former editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Watson has written or edited three books about nineteenth-century women, including A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1845-1910.