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The house of my sojourn : rhetoric, women, and the question of authority /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2010.
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| Collection: | Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817384821 0817384820 |