Add to ORKGThis dissertation examines commonplaces in influential Anglo-American women's activist rhetorics of the mid-nineteenth century. In contemporary rhetorical theory commonplaces refer to "opinions or assumptions...that people generally consider persuasive" (Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives 56). Because the persuasiveness of evidence depends on the assumptions that audiences hold, Cicero defines commonplaces as "the very homes of all proofs" (2.39.162). Social-activist rhetorics by nineteenth-century women literally relocated the homes of proofs to challenge previous assumptions. Nineteenth-century audiences generally considered persuasive the assumption that women should not speak or write on matters of public policy outside of the home. As a resu...
This project demonstrates the crucial role late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women\u27s reform...
Researchers suggest that backlashes to feminism may appear in the form of pro-family campaigns. Soci...
This dissertation examines the print discourse of the Canadian women's suffrage movement from the 18...
In the late 19th-century, when US women’s authority was largely relegated to domestic spaces, there ...
While suffragists in the late nineteenth century commanded a high profile in their fight for the vo...
When the American feminist movement is discussed in legal circles, conversation often proceeds as if...
Early nineteenth-century northeastern and western white women increasingly lived in a bifurcated wor...
Early nineteenth-century northeastern and western white women increasingly lived in a bifurcated wor...
This thesis focuses on the transformation of domestic ideology in the United States from the late ei...
Early nineteenth-century northeastern and western white women increasingly lived in a bifurcated wor...
This dissertation examines the development of women\u27s public identity in nineteenth-century Hartf...
Susan B. Anthony became the face of the woman suffrage movement as she traveled across the country s...
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, women’s clothing in the United States embodied the soc...
Foucault's argument in the short work "Of Other Spaces" suggests that rhetoric can be defined as how...
Through my examination of mid-nineteenth into early twentieth-century businesses related to fashion ...
This project demonstrates the crucial role late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women\u27s reform...
Researchers suggest that backlashes to feminism may appear in the form of pro-family campaigns. Soci...
This dissertation examines the print discourse of the Canadian women's suffrage movement from the 18...
In the late 19th-century, when US women’s authority was largely relegated to domestic spaces, there ...
While suffragists in the late nineteenth century commanded a high profile in their fight for the vo...
When the American feminist movement is discussed in legal circles, conversation often proceeds as if...
Early nineteenth-century northeastern and western white women increasingly lived in a bifurcated wor...
Early nineteenth-century northeastern and western white women increasingly lived in a bifurcated wor...
This thesis focuses on the transformation of domestic ideology in the United States from the late ei...
Early nineteenth-century northeastern and western white women increasingly lived in a bifurcated wor...
This dissertation examines the development of women\u27s public identity in nineteenth-century Hartf...
Susan B. Anthony became the face of the woman suffrage movement as she traveled across the country s...
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, women’s clothing in the United States embodied the soc...
Foucault's argument in the short work "Of Other Spaces" suggests that rhetoric can be defined as how...
Through my examination of mid-nineteenth into early twentieth-century businesses related to fashion ...
This project demonstrates the crucial role late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women\u27s reform...
Researchers suggest that backlashes to feminism may appear in the form of pro-family campaigns. Soci...
This dissertation examines the print discourse of the Canadian women's suffrage movement from the 18...