Titles
- Appropriating Dress
- Studies In Rhetorics And Feminisms
Attribution
Carol MattinglyPublication Details
BookSouthern Illinois University Press2002Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS407 .M38 2002 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American — Women authors — History and criticism
- Rhetoric — Social aspects — United States — History — 19th century
- Clothing and dress — United States — History — 19th century
- Feminism — United States — History — 19th century
- English language — United States — Rhetoric
- Women orators — United States
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Contents
- Introduction: Fabricated Gender
- 1. Friendly Dress: A Disciplined Use
- 2. Blooming Celebrity: The Flowering of a National Ethos
- 3. Restraining Women’s Rhetoric: Backlash Against the Reform Dress
- 4. The Language of Passing and Desire: The Rhetoric of Cross-Dressing
- 5. [Re]Fashioning a Proper Image by Dressing the Part
- Conclusion: Dress and Body as Spectacle
ISBN
- 0809324288
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