The Changing Tradition : Women in the History of Rhetoric

Until very recently, the contribution of women to the history of rhetoric has gone unacknowledged. Current scholarship, however, reveals that traditional devinitions of the field have been too narrow, excluding the work of women rhetoricians. Research demonstrates that women hav indeed been involved in the field of rhetoric, almost since its inception, and have made a significant impact. Plenary Address. Women In The History Of Rhetoric: The Past And The Future / Christine Mason Sutherland -- Group 1: Excluded From The Rhetorical Tradition. Plato's Women: Alternative Embodiments Of Rhetoric / C. Jan Swearingen -- Cutting Off The Memory Of Women / Jody Enders -- Group 2: Alongside The Rhetorical Tradition. Ethos Over Time: The Ongoing Appeal Of St. Catherine Of Siena / Margo Husby Scheelar -- Verbum Inuisibile Palpabitur: Les Sibylles Dans La Seconde Moitie︠ Du Xve Siècle: La Re︠pe︠tition Comme Poe︠tique De L'oracle / He︠lène Cazes -- Verbum Inuisibile Palpabitur: The Sibyls In The Second Half Of The Fifteenth Century: Repetition As Oracular Poetics / He︠lène Cazes, Translated By Nicholas Fairbank -- English Emblem Book Reception Theory And The Meditations Of Renaissance Women / Linda Bensel-meyers -- Account Of The Experience Of Hester Ann Rogers: Rhetorical Functions Of A Methodist Mystic's Journal / Vicki Collins --^ Group 3: Participating In The Rhetorical Tradition. Women And Latin Rhetoric From Hrotsvit To Hildegard / John Ward -- Lady Mary Wroth's Urania And The Rhetoric Of Female Abuse / Victor Skretkowicz -- Mary Astell's Rhetorical Theory: A Woman's Viewpoint / Erin Herberg -- Group 4: Emerging Into The Rhetorical Tradition. The Public Woman: Women Speakers Around The Turn Of The Century In Sweden / Brigitte Mral, Translated By Malcolm Forbes -- Flora Macdonald Denison And The Rhetoric Of The Early Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada / Andrea Williams -- Resisting Decline Stories: Gertrude Buck's Democratic Theory Of Rhetoric / Suzanne Bordelon -- Group 5: Engaging The Rhetorical Tradition. Re-inventing Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway's And Nicole Brossard's Embodied Visions / Philippa Spoel -- Feminist Epistemologies, Rhetorical Traditions And The Ad Hominem / Marianne Janack And John Adams -- Voice And The Inevitability Of Ethos / Robert L. King --^ Feminist Thoughts On Rhetoric / Lynette Hunter -- Afterword / Christine Mason Sutherland. Edited By Christine Mason Sutherland, Rebecca Sutcliffe. Papers At The Conference Of The International Society For The History Of Rhetoric At The University Of Saskatchewan In July 1997--pref. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English; One Contribute In French. Contains revised essays from a July 1997 conference, investigating why, and to what extent, women have been excluded from rhetoric, and what contributions they have nevertheless made to it in the past, as well as what they are doing in the field today. Essays are arranged to show the various ways in which received wisdom has been challenged and the rhetorical tradition revised. Topics include Plato's women, the ongoing appeal of St. Catherine of Siena, Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the rhetoric of female abuse, and feminist thoughts on rhetoric. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Until very recently, the contribution of women to the history of rhetoric has gone unacknowledged. Current scholarship, however, reveals that traditional devinitions of the field have been too narrow, excluding the work of women rhetoricians. The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric demonstrates that women have indeed been involved in the field of rhetoric, almost since its inception, and have made a significant impact. This collection of essays is the culmination of recent scholarship on the relationship of women to the rhetorical tradition, something which, for centuries, excluded them. Contributors to this timely volume include scholars from all across North America, Europe and Australia, and their work clearly demonstrates contemporary feminist modes of investigating traditional rhetorics