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

ISBN: 0809324288

ISBN13: 9780809324286

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

(Part of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series)

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...

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