Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

Overview

This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Perkins, and Ann Willis Richards; women with important scientific careers, such as Rachel Carson and Helen Broinowski Caldicott; and women with religious careers, such as Dorothy Day and Pauli Murray. It includes extraordinary women, such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those, such as Phyllis Schlafly, who have been actively anti-feminist. Each entry provides brief biographical information, focuses on an analysis of the subject's rhetoric, and concludes with information on sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313275357
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/1994
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.31(d)
Lexile:	1310L (what's this?)

About the Author

KARLYN KOHRS CAMPBELL is Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Man Cannot Speak for Her (2 vols.), published by Greenwood Press, and co-author of Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance. She was one of the first five distinguished scholars named by the Speech Communication Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Ti-Grace Atkinson by Michele M. Zurakowski
Ella Baker by Catherine M. Orr
Emily Greene Balch by Lynne Derbyshire
Clare Boothe Luce by Moya Ann Ball
Helen Broinowski Caldicott by Joan Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu
Rachel Carson by Christine Oravec
Margaret Chase Smith by Sandra J. Sarkela
Mary Church Terrell by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Mary Daly by Fern L. Johnson
Jessie Daniel Ames by Kimberly A. Powell and Celeste Condit
Beverly Davenport LaHaye by Adrienne Christiansen and Jennifer McGee
Dorothy Day by Carol J. Jablonski
Andrea Dworkin by Cindy Jenefsky
Geraldine Ferraro by Jane Blankenship
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn by Mari Boor Tonn and Mark S. Kuhn
Helen Gahagan Douglas by Jane Blankenship
Margaret Higgins Sanger by John M. Murphy
Helen Keller by Marin Pearson Allen
Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson by Janice Schuetz
Catharine A. MacKinnon by Catherine Helen Palczewski
Robin Morgan by Karen A. Foss
Pauli Murray by Sonja K. Foss
Leonora O'Reilly by Anne F. Mattina
Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Dale Bauer
Frances Perkins by E. Claire Jerry and Jennifer Christensen
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt by Debra L. Petersen
Patricia Scott Schroeder by E. Claire Jerry and Michael Spangle
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly by Martha Solomon and Mary Anne Trasciatti
Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer by Bernice Price and Annie Pearle Markham
Faye Wattleton by Diane S. Hope
Ann Willis Richards by Bonnie J. Dow
Martha Wright Griffiths by Judith S. Trent
Index

Editorial Reviews

This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925, including women with distinguished political, scientific, and religious careers, extraordinary women such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt, and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those who have been actively anti-feminist. Each entry provides brief biographical information, focuses on an analysis of the subject's rhetoric, and concludes with information on sources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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