Women at work : rhetorics of gender and labor /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Gold, David, 1966- (Editor), Enoch, Jessica (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Series:	Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subjects:	Women > Employment > United States > History. Sex discrimination in employment > United States > History. Labor > United States > History. Feminism > United States > History. Rhetoric > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Working Women in(to) Rhetorical History / Jessica Enoch and David Gold
Republicanism, Religiosity, and the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Reform in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830-1850 000 / Amy J. Wan
From Slave to Seamstress: Elizabeth Keckley's Rhetoric of Emotional Labor / Patty Wilde
Louisa May Alcott's Work: A New True Working Woman / Nancy Myers
"Opulent Friendships," Rhetorical Emulation, and Belletristic Instruction at Leache-Wood Seminary / Pamela Van Haitsma
Resituating Rhetorical Failure: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Metallurgist Carrie Everson / Sarah Hallenbeck
Professional Proof: Arguing for Women Photographers at the Fin de Siecle / Kristie S. Fleckenstein
Making Use of the Mundane: The Women's Trade Union League's Fight to Give Working Women a Voice / Marybeth Poder
Figuring Vice: Sex, Women, and Work in Kate Waller Barrett's Exhibitionist Rhetoric / Heather Brook Adams and Jason Barrett-Fox
Bodies of Praise: Epideictic Figures in the Independent Woman / Risa Applegarth
To Labor with Dignity: Alberta Hunter's Respectability and Resistance Rhetoric / Coretta M. Pittman
Profiting from Rhetorical Domesticity: Fashion Magnate Nell Donnelly Reed's Discursive Seams, 1916-1956 / Jane Greer
Babe Didrikson Zaharias's Rhetorical Branding: When It's Not Enough to Be the World's Greatest Woman Athlete / Lisa Shaver
In Rosie's Shadow: World War II Recruitment Rhetoric and Women's Work in Public Memory / Michelle Smith
"Other Peoples' Kitchens": Invisible Labor and Militant Voice during the Early Cold War / Jennifer Keohane
Gossard Girls Are Good Girls: Labor Activism at a 1949 Garment Factory Strike / Carly S. Woods and Kristen Lucas.