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Telling Political Lives

The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

AvBrenda DeVore Marshall,Molly A. Mayhead

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This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds, life adventures, and ideologies women bring to the political table. From differences in race, class, and geographic location, to variations in personal and family experiences, religious beliefs, and political ideology, these women illustrate many of the divergent standpoints from which women craft their lives in the United States. Each essay focuses on the autobiographical text as political discourse and therefore, as an appropriate site for the rhetorical construction of a personal and civic self situated within local and national political communities. The 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 the women provide in their writings; the ways in which the women's 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 the women's 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-06-24
Mått153 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
Antal sidor220
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739119488

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Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 ForewordChapter 3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 IntroductionChapter 5 1. Women's Autobiography as Political DiscourseChapter 6 2. Getting from There to Here: Political Rhetoric and African American Orality inBarbara Jordan: A Self PortraitChapter 7 3. From Housework to House Work: The Political Autobiographies of Patricia SchroederChapter 8 4. The "Feisty" Feminist from Queens: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of the Autobiographies of Geraldine FerraroChapter 9 5. Just Like "Azaleas in the Spring": Elizabeth Dole as a Daughter of the SouthChapter 10 6. All Our Relations: Wilma Mankiller's Rhetoric of Feminist Ecology and Indian SovereigntyChapter 11 7. The Personal is Political: Negotiating Publicity and Privacy in Hillary Rodham Clinton'sLiving HistoryChapter 12 8. Madeleine Albright and the Rhetoric ofMadame SecretaryChapter 13 9. Finding the Sensible Center: Christine Todd Whitman'sIt's My Party Too as Activist AutobiographyChapter 14 ConclusionChapter 15 BibliographyChapter 16 IndexChapter 17 About the Contributors

Do high powered political women write about their lives differently? Of course, but as this book shows, the common threads are remarkable. Each life story challenges artificial distinctions between the personal and the public. Each autobiography illustrates the ways in which a woman’s standpoint—her distinctive angle of vision as female, ethnic—influences the ways in which she understands her life and the political world. These women are role models, and their life stories rehearse the struggles and triumphs of ambitious and talented women.