Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series

In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching, Roxanne Mountford explores the relationship between bodies, space, race and gender in the rhetorical performance and American Protestant culture. She examines the strategies of three contemporary women preachers.

Redefines the concept of ethos - classically thought of as character or credibility - as ecological and feminist, negotiated and renegotiated, and implicated in shifting power dynamics. Building on previous feminist and rhetorical scholarship, this essay collection presents a sustained discussion of the unique methods by which women's ethos is constructed and transformed.

Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre-Civil War American discourse. Wendy Dasler Johnson considers the logos, ethos, and pathos of poems by Frances Watkins Harper, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Julia Ward Howe.

Explores women's complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women's efforts at taking on new kinds of work.

Collects and contextualizes thirty-four primary writings of understudied revolutionary mexicana rhetors and social activists who published with presses within the United States and Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of cross-border revolutionary upheaval and change.