Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

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From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence US women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, give their voices new recognition. Selecting 37 orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. All were ground-breakers - suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labour organisers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers. The volume opens with Campbell's introduction and then provides essays on each of the women included. Each entry begins with brief biographical information and then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric. Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information.

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Campbell is to be credited with tackling a relatively new research area. . . . Women Public Speakers is a recommended purchase for college and research libraries and large public libraries because of the information it gives on them as orators.-Reference Books Bulletin
Essays are well researched and well written. Useful for undergraduate or graduate students of communication, this sourcebook is an excellent tool for anyone interested in women's role in US history.-Choice
As excellent as the individual rhetorical "portraits" are, I have already found this book indispensable because of the closing structure of each essay. A volume written for researchers by researchers, ... I recommend that this 2-volume set be placed at the top of every acquisition list. Certainly, these will be the most thumbed through and loaned out books in your own office. Karlyn Campbell says in her introduction, "Happily, scholarship is never finished; these volumes will have achieved their end if they stimulate the study of other women rhetors and encourage further study of the women described in the pages that follow." This book has easily achieved its aim.- Quarterly Journal of Speech
"Campbell is to be credited with tackling a relatively new research area. . . . Women Public Speakers is a recommended purchase for college and research libraries and large public libraries because of the information it gives on them as orators."-Reference Books Bulletin
"Essays are well researched and well written. Useful for undergraduate or graduate students of communication, this sourcebook is an excellent tool for anyone interested in women's role in US history."-Choice
"As excellent as the individual rhetorical "portraits" are, I have already found this book indispensable because of the closing structure of each essay. A volume written for researchers by researchers, ... I recommend that this 2-volume set be placed at the top of every acquisition list. Certainly, these will be the most thumbed through and loaned out books in your own office. Karlyn Campbell says in her introduction, "Happily, scholarship is never finished; these volumes will have achieved their end if they stimulate the study of other women rhetors and encourage further study of the women described in the pages that follow." This book has easily achieved its aim."- Quarterly Journal of Speech

Author Bio

KARLYN KOHRS CAMPBELL is Professor in the Department of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul. She is the author of Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. I: A Critical Analysis of Early Feminist Rhetoric and Vol. II: Key Texts of the Early Feminists (Greenwood, 1989).