Women and Rhetoric

Question: What would be the purpose for a course on women and rhetoric?

Answer: “…to come to know women as rhetorical agents by analyzing the rhetorical strategies they used to make their voices heard.” P. 518.

Comment: Assumes that women as women use special rhetorical strategies in order to make themselves heard and remembered—since they are considered in many ways to be minorities. Intriguing idea. RayS.

Title: “Remembering Sappho: New Perspectives on Teaching (and Writing) Women’s Rhetorical History.” J Enoch and J Jack. College English (May 2011), 518-537.