Full Description
From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U.S. women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives their voices new recognition. Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. All were ground breakers--suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers.
The volume opens with Campbell's introduction and then provides extensive essays on each of the women included. Each entry begins with brief biographical information and then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric. Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.
Contents
Dedication Introduction Abbreviations Jane Addams Susan B. Anthony Clara Barton Belva Bennett Lockwood Clara Bewick Colby Antoinette Brown Blackwell Elizabeth Cady Stanton Victoria Claflin Woodhull Laura Clay Mary Clyens Lease Lucretia Coffin Mott Voltairine de Cleyre Anna E. Dickinson Mary Dreier Robins Rosa Fassel Sonneschein Emma Goldman Angelina Grimke Weld Sarah M. Grimke Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Emma Hart Willard Clarina Howard Nichols Helen Jackson Gougar Matilda Joslyn Gage Florence Kelley Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Carrie Lane Chapman Catt Maria W. Miller Stewart Ernestine Potowski Rose Kate Richards O'Hare Deborah Sampson Gannett Abigail Scott Duniway Anna Howard Shaw Sojourner Truth Julia Ward Howe Catharine Waugh McCulloch Ida B. Wells Barnett Frances E. Willard Contributors Index
