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Over a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Revolution in Mood: Emblems, Embodiment, and Ephemera
  • 2. On the Stage: Dramatized Women’s Rhetoric
  • 3. In Sociable Venues: Clubs, Salons, and Debating Societies
  • 4. On the Page: Written Rhetoric and Arguments About Education
  • Reflection on Findings
  • Appendix A: Eighteenth-century Terminology for Sex and Gender Identity
  • Appendix B: Table of Precedency Among Ladies
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni
      Publication Date: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780809338276, 978-0809338276
      ISBN10: 0809338270
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      Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Over a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Introduction
      • 1. A Revolution in Mood: Emblems, Embodiment, and Ephemera
      • 2. On the Stage: Dramatized Women’s Rhetoric
      • 3. In Sociable Venues: Clubs, Salons, and Debating Societies
      • 4. On the Page: Written Rhetoric and Arguments About Education
      • Reflection on Findings
      • Appendix A: Eighteenth-century Terminology for Sex and Gender Identity
      • Appendix B: Table of Precedency Among Ladies
      • Bibliography
      • Notes
      • Index

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