TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchanan,Lindal
TI  - Rhetorics of motherhood /Lindal Buchanan
T2  - Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
SN  - 9780809332212
AV  - P120 .R448 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carbondale, IL
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Language
KW  - Feminist literary criticism
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Feminist criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Theorizing motherhood in public discourse --; From "wild woman writer" to "mother of two": Margaret Sanger, birth control, and ethos repair --; Motherhood, civil rights, and remembrance: recuperating Diane Nash --; Changing constructs of motherhood: pregnancy and personhood in Laci and Conner's law; 2; b
N2  - Becoming a mother profoundly alters one's perception of the world, as Lindal Buchanan learned firsthand when she gave birth. Suddenly attentive to representations of mothers and mothering in advertisements, fiction, film, art, education, and politics, she became intrigued by the persuasive force of the concept of motherhood, an interest that unleashed a host of questions: How is the construct defined? How are maternal appeals crafted, presented, and performed? What do they communicate about gender and power? How do they affect women? Her quest for answers has produced Rhetori
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