Telling political lives
Subtitle: the rhetorical autobiographies of women leaders in the United States
By: edited by Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead.
Contributors: Marshall, Brenda DeVore, 1951-; Mayhead, Molly A., 1961-
Series: Lexington studies in political communication
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780739119471; 9780739119488
Subjects: Women politicians -- United States -- Biography; Autobiography -- Women authors
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This collection examines issues such as the intersection between the "politicization of the private and the personalization of the public" evident in the women's narratives; the description of U.S. politics that they provide in their writings; the ways in which their personal stories craft arguments about their political ideologies; the strategies these women leaders employ in navigating the gendered double-binds of politics; and the manner in which their discourse serves to encourage, instruct, and empower future women leaders. The analyses embody and explicate the political and rhetorical strategies these leaders employ in their efforts to act on their convictions, highlight the need for and reality of women's involvement in all levels of politics, and serve as an impetus and inspiration for scholars and activists alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's autobiography as political discourse / Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead; title: Getting from there to here: political rhetoric and African-American orality in Barbara Jordan: a self-portrait / Brenda DeVore Marshall; title: From housework to house work: the political autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder / Molly A. Mayhead and Brenda DeVore Marshall; title: The "feisty" feminist from Queens: a feminist rhetorical analysis of the autobiographies of Geraldine Ferraro / Catherine A. Dobris; title: Just like "azaleas in the spring": Elizabeth Dole as a daughter of the South / Nichola D. Gutgold; title: All our relations: Wilma Mankiller's rhetoric of feminist ecology and Indian sovereignty / Emily Plec; title: The personal is political: negotiating publicity and privacy In Hillary Rodham Clinton's living history / Karrin Vasby Anderson; title: Madeleine Albright and the rhetoric of Madame Secretary / C. Brant Short.