Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United StatesBrenda DeVore Marshall, Molly A. Mayhead Using a variety of critical methods, the contributing authors of Telling Political Lives demonstrate the ways in which the autobiographies of U.S. women leaders provide arguments that both reveal and shape perceptions of politics, empowerment, and ideology in the United States. |
Contents
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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