the fifth canon and antebellum women rhetors
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Buchanan, Lindal
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- retorica, gender, vrouwelijkheid
- Description
- In this study of women’s rhetorical education, Lindal Buchanan analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction to subversive ends, developing distinctive delivery styles, and reconciling conflicting public and private roles. By detailing the education and oratorical practices of pioneering female public speakers, Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum .Buchanan argues that restrictive gender norms encouraged women rhetors to develop unique styles and methods of rhetorical production and performance. She examines how schoolgirls devised ways to learn and practice elocution in academic settings and how women developed inventive delivery strategies to maintain the appearance of femininity even as they participated in conventionally masculine discursive activities from general public speaking to political lobbying. She also identifies collaborative methods that enabled antebellum women to negotiate conflicts between their domestic and rhetorical commitments and thus reach public platforms.