Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s) (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

__Available Means__ offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women’s rhetoric. From Aspasia--a Contemporary Of Plato--to Gloria Steinem, Available Means Gathers The Voices Of Women Rhetoricians Throughout History. The First Anthology Of Primary Texts In This Tradition, This Book Expands The Canon And Demonstrates How Women's Writing And Speaking Has Redefined And Subverted Traditional Means Of Persuasion. I Say That Even Later Someone Will Remember Us, Wrote Sappho In The Sixthe Century, B.c.e. Her Prediction Came True, Not Only For Her Own Writing, But For That Of Hundreds Of Women Over The Past Two And A Half Millennia. Seventy Of Them Are Represented In Available Means, Including: Queen Elizabeth I, Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Rachel Carson, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, And Many More. Pericles' Funeral Oration From Plato's Menexenus / Aspasia -- On Love From Plato's Symposium / Diotima -- Speech To The Triumvirs / Hortensia -- From Letter I. Heloise To Abelard / Heloise -- From Revelations Of Divine Love / Julian Of Norwich -- Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, Her Mother, In Siena / Catherine Of Siena -- From The Book Of The City Of Ladies / Christine De Pizan -- From The Book Of Margery Kempe / Margery Kempe -- To The Troops At Tilbury / Queen Elizabeth I -- From Jane Anger Her Protection For Women ... / Jane Anger -- From A Mouzzel For Melastomus / Rachel Speght -- From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved And Allowed By The Scriptures / Margaret Fell -- From La Respuesta / Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz -- From A Serious Proposal To The Ladies / Mary Astell -- Letter To Lady Bute / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Petition Of An African Slave / Belinda -- From A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Cherokee Women Address Their Nation / Cherokee Women -- Lecture Delivered At The Franklin Hall / Maria W. Stewart -- Letter To Theodore Weld / Sarah Grimke -- Address At Pennsylvania Hall / Angelina Grimke Weld -- From Woman In The Nineteenth Century / Margaret Fuller -- Declaration Of Sentiments And Resolutions / Seneca Falls Convention -- Speech At The Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio / Sojourner Truth -- We Are All Bound Up Together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- From The United States Of America V. Susan B. Anthony / Susan B. Anthony -- From Life Among The Piutes / Sarah Winnemucca -- The Higher Education Of Women / Anna Julia Cooper -- From The Solitude Of Self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- From The Intellectual Progress Of The Colored Women Of The United States Since The Emancipation Proclamation / Fanny Barrier Williams -- 'lynch Law In All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells -- From Women And Economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Present Status Of Rhetorical Theory / Gertrude Buck -- From Correct Writing And Speaking / Mary Augusta Jordan -- Letter To The Readers Of The Woman Rebel / Margaret Sanger -- From Marriage And Love / Emma Goldman -- Facing Life Squarely / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- Memorial Day In Chicago / Dorothy Day -- Professions For Women / Virginia Woolf -- Crazy For This Democracy / Zora Neale Hurston -- From The Introduction To The Second Sex / Simone De Beauvoir -- A Fable For Tomorrow / Rachel Carson -- The Special Plight And The Role Of The Black Woman / Fannie Lou Hamer -- When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-vision / Adrienne Rich -- From Sorties / Helene Cixous -- The Combahee River Collective Statement / Combahee River Collective -- The Tranformation Of Silence Into Language And Action / Audre Lorde -- Letter To Ma / Merle Woo -- In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens / Alice Walker -- From A Feeling For The Organism / Evelyn Fox Keller -- I Want A Twenty-four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape / Andrea Dworkin -- Grandmother Of The Sun: Ritual Gynocracy In Native America / Paula Gunn Allen -- How To Tame A Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldua -- Don't You Talk About My Momma! / June Jordan -- From Woman, Natice, Other / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Homeplace (a Site Of Resistance) / Bell Hooks -- Carnal Acts / Nancy Mairs -- The Clan Of One-breasted Women / Terry Tempest Williams -- The Death Of The Profane / Patricia Williams -- The Nobel Lecture In Literature And The Acceptance Speech / Toni Morrison -- Gender Quiz / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- From Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure / Dorothy Allison -- It's A Big Fat Revolution / Nomy Lamm -- Yellow Woman And A Beauty Of The Spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From United States V. Virginia Et Al. / Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart / Ruth Behar -- Supremacy Crimes / Gloria Steinem. Edited By Joy Ritchie And Kate Ronald. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [510]-516) And Index.

"I say that even later someone will remember us."—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BCSappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho's writing remains only in fragments, partly due to the passage of time, but mostly as a result of systematic efforts to silence women's voices. Sappho's hopeful boast captures the mission of this anthology: to gather together women engaged in the art of persuasion—across differences of race, class, sexual orientation, historical and physical locations—in order to remember that the rhetorical tradition indeed includes them. Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald do so in the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric. Women whose voices are central to such scholarship are included here, such as Aspasia (a contemporary of Plato's), Margery Kempe, Margaret Fuller, and Ida B. Wells. Added are influential works on what it means to write as a woman—by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Nancy Mairs, Alice Walker, and Hélène Cixous. Public "manifestos" on the rights of women by Hortensia, Mary Astell, Maria Stewart, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, and Audre Lorde also join the discourse.But Available Means searches for rhetorical tradition in less obvious places, too. Letters, journals, speeches, newspaper columns, diaries, meditations, and a fable (Rachel Carson's introduction to Silent Spring) also find places in this room. Such unconventional documents challenge traditional notions of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery, and blur the boundaries between public and private discourse. Included, too, are writers whose voices have not been heard in any tradition. Ritchie and Ronald seek to "unsettle" as they expand the women's rhetorical canon.Arranged chronologically, Available Means is designed as a classroom text that will allow students to hear women speaking to each other across centuries, and to see how women have added new places from which arguments can be made. Each selection is accompanied by an extensive headnote, which sets the reading in context. The breadth of material will allow students to ask such questions as "How might we define women's rhetoric? How have women used and subverted traditional rhetoric?"A topical index at the end of the book provides teachers a guide through the rhetorical riches. Available Means will be an invaluable text for rhetoric courses of all levels, as well as for women's studies courses.

"I say that even later someone will remember us."—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho's writing remains only in fragments, partly due to the passage of time, but mostly as a result of systematic efforts to silence women's voices. Sappho's hopeful boast captures the mission of this anthology: to gather together women engaged in the art of persuasion—across differences of race, class, sexual orientation, historical and physical locations—in order to remember that the rhetorical tradition indeed includes them. Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald do so in the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric. Women whose voices are central to such scholarship are included here, such as Aspasia (a contemporary of Plato's), Margery Kempe, Margaret Fuller, and Ida B. Wells. Added are influential works on what it means to write as a woman—by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Nancy Mairs, Alice Walker, and Hélène Cixous. Public "manifestos" on the rights of women by Hortensia, Mary Astell, Maria Stewart, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, and Audre Lorde also join the discourse. But Available Means searches for rhetorical tradition in less obvious places, too. Letters, journals, speeches, newspaper columns, diaries, meditations, and a fable (Rachel Carson's introduction to Silent Spring) also find places in this room. Such unconventional documents challenge traditional notions of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery, and blur the boundaries between public and private discourse. Included, too, are writers whose voices have not been heard in any tradition. Ritchie and Ronald seek to "unsettle" as they expand the women's rhetorical canon. Arranged chronologically, Available Means is designed as a classroom text that will allow students to hear women speaking to each other across centuries, and to see how women have added new places from which arguments can be made. Each selection is accompanied by an extensive headnote, which sets the reading in context. The breadth of material will allow students to ask such questions as "How might we define women's rhetoric? How have women used and subverted traditional rhetoric?" A topical index at the end of the book provides teachers a guide through the rhetorical riches. Available Means will be an invaluable text for rhetoric courses of all levels, as well as for women's studies courses. Chronological Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgements 14 Introduction 16 Aspasia 36 Diotima 44 Hortensia 51 Heloise 55 Julian of Norwich 60 Catherine of Siena 64 Christine de Pizan 67 Margery Kempe 78 Queen Elizabeth I 83 Jane Anger 85 Rachel Speght 96 Margaret Fell 101 Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz 106 Mary Astell 114 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 119 Belinda 124 Mary Wollstonecraft 127 Cherokee Women 141 Maria W. Stewart 144 Sarah Grimke 149 Angelina Grimke Weld 154 Margaret Fuller 160 Seneca Falls Convention 173 Sojourner Truth 178 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 182 Susan B. Anthony 186 Sarah Winnemucca 192 Anna Julia Cooper 198 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 206 Fannie Barrier Williams 214 Ida B. Wells 223 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 239 Gertrude Buck 246 Mary Augusta Jordan 253 Margaret Sanger 258 Emma Goldman 261 Alice Dunbar Nelson 268 Dorothy Day 272 Virginia Woolf 276 Zora Neale Hurston 282 Simone De Beauvoir 287 Rachel Carson 294 Fannie Lou Hamer 297 Adrienne Rich 302 Helene Cixous 318 Combahee River Collective 326 Audre Lorde 336 Merle Woo 341 Alice Walker 349 Evelyn Fox Keller 358 Andrea Dworkin 365 Paula Gunn Allen 375 Gloria Anzaldua 391 June Jordan 401 Trinh T. Minh-ha 412 bell hooks 417 Nancy Mairs 426 Terrey Tempest Williams 436 Patricia Williams 444 Toni Morrison 451 Minnie Bruce Pratt 459 Dorothy Allison 470 Nomy Lamm 489 Leslie Marmon Silko 497 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 506 Ruth Behar 513 Gloria Steinem 524 Appendix A: Alternative/Rhetorical Table of Contents 530 Bibliography 546 Index 552 This volume, which offers 70 female rhetoricians, is designed as a classroom text that will allow students to hear women speaking to each other across centuries, and to see how women have added new places from which arguments can be made.