The woman's page
Subtitle: journalism and rhetoric in early Canada
By: Janice Fiamengo.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780802097828; 9780802095374
Subjects: Women in journalism -- Canada -- History -- 19th century; Women in journalism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Women journalists -- Canada -- History; Women journalists -- Canada -- Biography; Rhetoric -- Canada -- History; Femmes en journalisme -- Canada -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Femmes en journalisme -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Femmes journalistes -- Canada -- Histoire; Femmes journalistes -- Canada -- Biographies; Rhétorique -- Canada -- Histoire
Genres: Biography; Biographies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : strong statement, trenchant ideas, promising plans; title: Anges Maule Machar, Christian radical; title: The uses of wit : Sara Jeannette Duncan's self-fashioning; title: 'This graceful olive branch of the Iroquois' : Pauline Johnson's rhetoric of reconciliation; title: Gossip, chit-chat, and life lessons : Kit Coleman's womanly persona; title: Heroines and martyrs in the cause : suffrage as holy war in the journalism of Flora MacDonald Denison; title: Nellie McClung and the rhetoric of the Fair Deal; title: Conclusion.