Research Catalog

Title

Lives of their own : rhetorical dimensions in autobiographies of women activists / Martha Watson.

Author

Watson, Martha, 1941-

Publication

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [1999]

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Details

Description

x, 149 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Lives of Their Own explores how five exceptional turn-of-the-century women crafted autobiographies that became compelling, persuasive models for the women of their generation. Although Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, and Mary Church Terrell were not among the first women to cut a path into the mainstream of American life or the only women of their era to lead movements for social change, they were among the first to publish narratives of their lives. Martha Watson provides glimpses not only of the women themselves but also of the autobiographical genre as a dimension of public rhetorical discourse."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Uniform Title

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Subject

• Geschichte 1880-1914
• Autobiography > Women authors
• Biography as a literary form
• Women social reformers > United States > Biography
• English language > United States > Rhetoric
• Biographies as Topic
• biographies (literary works)
• English language > Rhetoric
• Women social reformers
• Autobiografische Literatur
• Sozialreformerin
• United States
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-144) and index.

Contents

Autobiographies as persuasion -- The nature of autobiography -- Emma Goldman as a liberated woman -- Frances Willard as protector of the home -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw as womanly leaders -- Mary Church Terrell as a colored woman in a white world -- When and where I enter.

ISBN

• 1570032009
• 9781570032004

LCCN

97045361

OCLC

• ocm38055838
• 38055838
• SCSB-567813

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library