Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United StatesBrenda DeVore Marshall, Molly A. Mayhead Lexington Books, 2008 - 211 strán (strany) This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds, life adventures, and ideologies women bring to the political table. From differences in race, class, and geographic location to variations in personal and family experiences, religious beliefs, and political ideology, these women illustrate many of the divergent standpoints from which women craft their lives in the United States. Each chapter focuses on the autobiographical text as political discourse and, therefore, as an appropriate site for the rhetorical construction of a personal and civic self, situated within local and national political communities. This collection examines issues such as the intersection between the "politicization of the private and the personalization of the public" evident in the women's narratives; the description of U.S. politics that they provide in their writings; the ways in which their personal stories craft arguments about their political ideologies; the strategies these women leaders employ in navigating the gendered double-binds of politics; and the manner in which their discourse serves to encourage, instruct, and empower future women leaders. The analyses embody and explicate the political and rhetorical strategies these leaders employ in their efforts to act on their convictions, highlight the need for and reality of women's involvement in all levels of politics, and serve as an impetus and inspiration for scholars and activists alike. Book jacket. |
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Womens Autobiography as Political Discourse | 7 |
Getting from There to Here Political Rhetoric and African American Orality in Barbara Jordan A SelfPortrait | 15 |
From Housework to House Work The Political Autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder | 55 |
The Feisty Feminist from Queens A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of the Autobiographies of Geraldine Ferraro | 73 |
Just Like Azaleas in the Spring Elizabeth Dole as a Daughter of the South | 95 |
All Our Relations Wilma Mankillers Rhetoric of Feminist Ecology and Indian Sovereignty | 109 |
The Personal Is Political Negotiating Publicity and Privacy in Hillary Rodham Clintons Living History | 131 |
Madeleine Albright and the Rhetoric of Madame Secretary | 147 |
Finding the Sensible Center Christine Todd Whitmans Its My Party Too as Activist Autobiography | 167 |
Conclusion | 185 |
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About the Contributors | 209 |
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