Vote and Voice
Subtitle: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: October 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780809325887
Subjects: Feminism; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Rhetoric; Political Science; Gender Studies; Women's International League f; Politics/International Relations; USA; Sociology; Political History; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); Women's Studies - History; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Political Process - Leadership; Women's Studies - General; Public Policy - Social Policy; League of Women Voters (U.S.); United States; Women in politics; Feminism & Feminist Theory
First sentence: Scholars have recently begun to pay a good deal of attention to the reading, writing, and speaking practices of American women's organizations, particularly as those practices developed before suffrage.
Description: "Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement. During those years, women still did not have power within deliberative and administrative organs of politics, despite their recent enfranchisement. Because they were largely absent from diplomatic circles and political parties, post-suffrage women's organizations developed widespread, cumulative rhetorical practices of public discourse to push for reform within traditional politics." "Extending contemporary understandings of women's political literacy in the post-suffrage era, Vote and Voice is historically significant as well as pedagogically beneficial for instructors who connect rhetorical education with public participation by integrating writing and speaking skills into a curriculum that aims to prepare educated students and active citizens. The volume is enhanced by seven illustrations."--BOOK JACKET.