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Telling Political Lives
The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States
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2008
Summary
This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds, life adventures, and ideologies women bring to the political table. From differences in race, class, and geographic location, to variations in personal and family experiences, religious beliefs, and political ideology, these women illustrate many of the divergent standpoints from which women craft their lives in the United States. Each essay focuses on the autobiographical text as political discourse and therefore, as an appropriate site for the rhetorical construction of a personal and civic self situated within local and national political communities.
The collection examines issues such as the intersection between the "politicization of the private and the personalization of the public" evident in the women's narratives; the description of U.S. politics the women provide in their writings; the ways in which the women's personal stories craft arguments about their political ideologies; the strategies these women leaders employ in navigating the gendered double-binds of politics; and, the manner in which the women's discourse serves to encourage, instruct, and empower future women leaders. The analyses embody and explicate the political and rhetorical strategies these leaders employ in their efforts to act on their convictions, highlight the need for and reality of women's involvement in all levels of politics, and serve as an impetus and inspiration for scholars and activists alike.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1947-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3425-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
211
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1 Women's Autobiography as Political Discourse Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead No access Pages 7 - 14
2 Getting from There to Here: Political Rhetoric and African American Orality in Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait Brenda DeVore Marshall No access Pages 15 - 54
3 From Housework to House Work: The Political Autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder Molly A. Mayhead and Brenda DeVore Marshall No access Pages 55 - 72
4 The "Feisty" Feminist from Queens: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of the Autobiographies of Geraldine Ferraro Catherine A. Dobris No access Pages 73 - 94
5 Just Like "Azaleas in the Spring": Elizabeth Dole as a Daughter of the South Nichola D. Gutgold No access Pages 95 - 108
6 All Our Relations: Wilma Mankiller's Rhetoric of Feminist Ecology and Indian Sovereignty Emily Plec No access Pages 109 - 130
7 The Personal Is Political: Negotiating Publicity and Privacy in Hillary Rodham Clinton's Living History Karrin Vasby Anderson No access Pages 131 - 146
8 Madeleine Albright and the Rhetoric of Madame Secretary C. Brant Short No access Pages 147 - 166
9 Finding the Sensible Center: Christine Todd Whitman's It's My Party Too as Activist Autobiography Kristina Horn Sheeler No access Pages 167 - 184
