Lives of their own
Subtitle: rhetorical dimensions in autobiographies of women activists
By: Martha Watson.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Autobiography -- Women authors.; Biography as a literary form.; Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Description: Lives of Their Own explores how five exceptional turn-of-the-century women crafted autobiographies that became compelling, persuasive models for the women of their generation. Although Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, and Mary Church Terrell were not among the first women to cut a path into the mainstream of American life or the only women of their era to lead movements for social change, they were among the first to publish narratives of their lives.

Martha Watson provides glimpses not only of the women themselves but also of the autobiographical genre as a dimension of public rhetorical discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: Autobiographies as persuasion; title: The nature of autobiography; title: Emma Goldman as a liberated woman; title: Frances Willard as protector of the home; title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw as womanly leaders; title: Mary Church Terrell as a colored woman in a white world; title: When and where I enter.