Available means : an anthology of women's rhetoric(s /
edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald.
- xxi, 521 pages ; 24 cm.
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture .
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 510-516) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Aspasia -- "Pericles' Funeral Oration" from Plato's Menexenus (c. 387-367 B.C.E.) -- Diotima -- "On Love" from Plato's Symposium ( c. 360 B.C.E.) -- Hortensia -- "Speech to the Triumvirs" (42 B.C.E.) -- Heloise -- From "Letter I. Heloise to Abelard" (1132) -- Julian of Norwich -- From Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s) -- Catherine of Siena -- "Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena" (1376) -- Christine de Pizan -- From The Book of the City of Ladies (1404) -- Margery Kempe -- From The Book of Margery Kempe (1436) -- Queen Elizabeth I -- "To the Troops at Tilbury" (1588) -- Jane Anger -- From Jane Anger Her Protection for Women... (1589) -- Rachel Speght -- From A Mouzzel for Melastomus (1617) -- Margaret Fell -- From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666) -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- From "La Respuesta" (1691) -- Mary Astell -- From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- "Letter to Lady Bute" (1753) -- Belinda -- "Petition of an African Slave" (1782) -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) -- Cherokee Women -- "Cherokee Women Address Their Nation" (1817) -- Maria W. Stewart -- "Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall" (1832) -- Sarah Grimke -- "Letter to Theodore Weld" (1837) -- Angelina Grimke Weld -- "Address at Pennsylvania Hall" (1838) -- Margaret Fuller -- From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) -- Seneca Falls Convention -- "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848) -- Sojourner Truth -- "Speech at the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio" (1851) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- "We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866) -- Susan B. Anthony -- From the United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873) -- Sarah Winnemucca -- From Life Among the Piutes (1883) -- Anna Julia Cooper -- "The Higher Education of Women" (1892) -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- From "The Solitude of Self" (1892) -- Fannie Barrier Williams -- From "The Intellectual progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" (1893) -- Ida B. Wells -- "Lynch Law in All its Phases" (1893) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- From Women and Economics (1898) -- Gertrude Buck -- "The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" (1900) -- Mary Augusta Jordan -- From Correct Writing and Speaking (1904) -- Margaret Sanger -- "Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel" (1914) -- Emma Goldman -- From "Marriage and Love" (1914) -- Alice Dunbar Nelson -- "Facing Life Squarely" (1927) -- Dorothy Day -- "Memorial Day in Chicago" (1937) -- Virginia Woolf -- "Professions for Women" (1942) -- Zora Neale Hurston -- "Crazy for This Democracy" (1945) -- Simone de Beauvoir -- From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952) -- Rachel Carson -- "A Fable for Tomorrow" (1962) -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- "The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman" (1971) -- Adrienne Rich -- "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1971) -- Helene Cixous -- From "Sorties" (1975) -- Combahee River Collective -- "The Combahee River Collective Statement" (1977) -- Audre Lorde -- "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1977) -- Merle Woo -- "Letter to Ma" (1980) -- Alice Walker -- "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" (1983) -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- From A Feeling for the Organism (1983) -- Andrea Dworkin -- "I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape" (1983) -- Paula Gunn Allen -- "Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America" (1986) -- Gloria Anzaldua -- "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (1987) -- June Jordan -- "Don't You Talk About My Momma!" (1987) -- Trinh T. Minh-ha -- From Woman, Native, Other (1989) -- bell hooks -- "Homeplace (as site of resistance)" (1990) -- Nancy Mairs -- "Carnal Acts" (1990) -- Terry Tempest Williams -- "The Clan of One-Breasted Women" (1991) -- Patricia Williams -- "The Death of the Profane" (1991) -- Toni Morrison -- "The Nobel Lecture in Literature" and "The Acceptance Speech" (1993) -- Minnie Bruce Pratt -- "Gender Quiz" (1995) -- Dorothy Allison -- From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995) -- Nomy Lamm -- "It's a Big Fat Revolution" (1995) -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" (1996) -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- From United States v. Virginia et al. (1996) -- Ruth Behar -- "Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" (1996) -- Gloria Steinem -- "Supremacy Crimes" (1991) -- App. A: Alternative/Rhetorical Table of Contents -- A Select Bibliography of Works on Women's Rhetorics -- Index.