Women at work : rhetorics of gender and labor /
edited by David Gold and Jessica Enoch.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Working Women in(to) Rhetorical History / 1. Republicanism, Religiosity, and the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Reform in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830-1850 / 2. From Slave to Seamstress : Elizabeth Keckley's Rhetoric of Emotional Labor / 3. Louisa May Alcott's Work : A New True Working Woman / 4. "Opulent Friendships," Rhetorical Emulation, and Belletristic Instruction at Leache-Wood Seminary / 5. Resituating Rhetorical Failure : The Case of Nineteenth-Century Metallurgist Carrie Everson / 6. Professional Proof : Arguing for Women Photographers at the Fin de Siecle / 7. Making Use of the Mundane : The Women's Trade Union League's Fight to Give Working Women a Voice / 9. Bodies of Praise : Epideictic Figures in the Independent Woman / 10. To Labor with Dignity : Alberta Hunter's Respectability and Resistance Rhetoric / 11. Profiting from Rhetorical Domesticity : Fashion Magnate Nell Donnelly Reed's Discursive Seams, 1916-1956 / 12. Babe Didrikson Zaharias's Rhetorical Branding : When It's Not Enough to Be the World's Greatest Woman Athlete / 13. In Rosie's Shadow : World War II Recruitment Rhetoric and Women's Work in Public Memory / 14. "Other Peoples' Kitchens" : Invisible Labor and Militant Voice during the Early Cold War / 15. Gossard Girls Are Good Girls : Labor Activism at a 1949 Garment Factory Strike / Jessica Enoch and David Gold -- Amy J. Wan -- Patty Wilde -- Nancy Myers -- Pamela Van Haitsma -- Sarah Hallenbeck -- Kristie S. Fleckenstein -- Marybeth Poder --8. Figuring Vice : Sex, Women, and Work in Kate Waller Barrett's Exhibitionist Rhetoric / Heather Brook Adams and Jason Barrett-Fox -- Risa Applegarth -- Coretta M. Pittman -- Jane Greer -- Lisa Shaver -- Michelle Smith -- Jennifer Keohane -- Carly S. Woods and Kristen Lucas.
This book presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women's labor evangelism in the textile industry, the rhetorical constructions of leadership within women's trade unions, the rhetorical branding of a twentieth-century female athlete, the labor activism of an African American blues singer, and the romantic, same-sex collaborations that supported pedagogical labor. This book also introduces readers to rhetorical methods and approaches possible for the study of gender and work. Contributors name and explore a specific rhetorical concern that animates their study and in so doing, readers learn about such concepts as professional proof, rhetorical failure, epideictic embodiment, rhetorics of care, and cross-racial coalition building. --
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Women--Employment--History.--United States Sex discrimination in employment--History.--United States Labor--History.--United States Feminism--History.--United States Rhetoric--History.--United States