Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres-humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and

Oral communication --- Women --- English language --- Rhetoric --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Education --- Language arts. --- Discourse analysis. --- History. --- Germanic languages