The Changing Tradition
Women in the History of Rhetoric

Christine Mason Sutherland
and Rebecca Sutcliffe, ed.

About the Book

Until very recently, the contribution of women to the history of rhetoric has gone unacknowledged. Current scholarship, however, reveals that traditional devinitions of the field have been too narrow, excluding the work of women rhetoricians. Research demonstrates that women hav indeed been involved in the field of rhetoric, almost since its inception, and have made a significant impact.

" The organization of this book is excellent, and in itself suggests a new way of theorizing . . . Each essay displays a firm grast of both rhetorical theory and history and presents a clear exposition of the texts being analyzed. Many of them constitute admirable models of rhetorical, or persuasive writing. " - Carol Morrell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, University of Saskatchewan

About the Editors

Christine Mason Sutherland is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, where she teaches the history of rhetoric and other courses in Communications. She has published on the rhetoric of Augustine of Hippo and on scientific rhetoric in the seventeenth century. In recent years, her research has been in the relationship of seventeenth century women to the rhetorical tradition. She has published many essays on Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell.

Rebecca Sutcliffe received her Ph.D. in English from Simon Fraser University and has taught composition and professional writing at the University of Utah and the University of Saskatchewan. She has authored articles on women and writing for Technical Communication Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of Literary Biography. She is currently Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

Table of Contents

Plenary Address
Women in the History of Rhetoric: The Past and the Future, Christine Mason Sutherland

1. Excluded from the Rhetorical Tradition
   • Plato's Women: Alternative Embodiments of Rhetoric, C. Jan Sweringen
• Cutting Off the Memory of Women, Jody Enders
  
  
2. Alongside the Rhetorical Tradition
   • Ethos Over Time: The Ongoing Appeal of St. Catherine of Siena, Margo Husby Scheelar
   • Verbum inuisibile palpabitur: Les Sibylles dans la seconde moitiÈ du XVe siËcle: La rÈpÈtition comme poÈtique de l'oracle, HÈlËne Cazes
   • English Emblem Book Reception Theory and the Meditations of Renaissance Women, Linda Bensel-Meyers
   • Account of the Experience of Hester Ann Rogers: Rhetoric Functions of a Methodist Mystic's Journal, Vicki Collins
     
     
3. Participating in the Rhetorical Tradition
   • Women and Latin Rhetoric from Hrotsvit to Hildegard, John Ward
   • Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the Rhetoric of Female Abuse, Victor Skretkowicz
   • Mary Astell's Rhetorical Theory: A Woman's Viewpoint, Erin Herberg
     
     
4. Emerging into the Rhetorical Tradition
   • The Public Woman: Women Speakers Aroung the Turn of the Century in Sweden, Brigitte Mral, translated by Malcolm Forbes
   • Flora MacDonald Denison and the Rhetoric of the Early Women's Suffrage Movement in Canada, Andrea Williams
   • Resisting Decline Stories: Gertrude Buck's Democratic Theory of Rhetoric, Suzanne Bordelon
     
     
5. Engaging the Rhetorical Tradition
   • Re-inventing Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway's and Nicole Brossard's Embodied Visions, Philippa Spoel
   • Feminist Epistemologies, Rhetorical Traditions and the Ad Hominem, Marianne Janack and John Adams
   • Voice and the Inevitability of Ethos, Robert L. King
   • Feminist Thoughts on Rhetoric, Lynette Hunter
     
     

   Afterword, Christine Mason Sutherland

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