The house of my sojourn : rhetoric, women, and the question of authority /

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Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton's central ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sutton, Jane S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010.
Colección:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Temas:
Women > Intellectual life.
Women > Social conditions.
Rhetoric.
Communication and culture.
Femmes > Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes > Conditions sociales.
Rhétorique.
Communication et culture.
rhetoric (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Communication and culture
Rhetoric
Women > Intellectual life
Women > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton's central argument is that all attempts to include women in rhetoric exclude them from meaningful authority in due course, and this exclusion has been built into the foundations of rhetoric. Drawing on personal experience, the spatial tropes of ancient Greek architecture, and the study of women who attai.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817384821
0817384820

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