Gender and rhetorical space in American life, 1866-1910
Nan Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, nonacademic or ""parlour"" traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle-class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical behaviour for women that required conventional femininity.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780809324262, 0809324261
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