Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America

by Carol Mattingly

Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for nineteenth-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and appearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric. Although crucial to women's effectiveness as speakers, Mattingly notes, appearance has been ignored because it was taken for granted by men.

Because women rarely spoke in public before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324288
• ISBN13: 9780809324286
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.7"