The Rhetoric of Rebel Women Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations List; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Words of Honor-Evidence, Exigence, and Rhetorical Selves; 1. Dangerous Words/Domestic Spaces: Invading Union Forces and Southern Women's Rhetorical Efforts in Self-Protection; 2. A Ladylike Resistance? Finding the Time, Place, and Means for Voicing Political Allegiances; 3. Guarded Tongues/Secure Communities: Rhetorical Responsibilities and "Everyday" Audiences; 4. Public Voices/Divine Audiences: Confederate Women's Prayers during the Civil War 5. Audiences Victorious, Defeated, and Free: Rhetorical Purpose in the Immediate Postwar SouthConclusion; Archive Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography; Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms; Other Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series; Back Cover
During the American Civil War, southern white women found themselves speaking and acting in unfamiliar and tumultuous circumstances. With the war at their doorstep, women who supported the war effort took part in defining what it meant to be, and to behave as, a Confederate through their verbal and nonverbal rhetorics. Though most did not speak from the podium, they viewed themselves as participants in the war effort, indicating that what they did or did not say could matter. Drawing on the rich evidence in women's Civil War diaries, The Rhetoric of Rebel Women recognizes women's pages.
9780809332588
English language. United States. Women--Confederate States of America--Diaries. Rhetoric--Confederate States of America. English language--Rhetoric.--19th century Women--Language.