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Telling political lives : the rhetorical autobiographies of women leaders in the United States / edited by Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead.

Other author/creatorMarshall, Brenda DeVore, 1951-
Other author/creatorMayhead, Molly A., 1961-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 211 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Lexington studies in political communication
Lexington studies in political communication. ^A605991
Contents Women's autobiography as political discourse / Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead -- Getting from there to here: political rhetoric and African American orality in Barbara Jordan: a self-portrait / Brenda DeVore Marshall -- From housework to house work: the political autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder / Molly A. Mayhead and Brenda DeVore Marshall -- The "feisty" feminist from Queens: a feminist rhetorical analysis of the autobiographies of Geraldine Ferraro / Catherine A. Dobris -- Just like "azaleas in the spring": Elizabeth Dole as a daughter of the South / Nichola D. Gutgold -- All our relations: Wilma Mankiller's rhetoric of feminist ecology and Indian sovereignty / Emily Plec -- The personal is political: negotiating publicity and privacy In Hillary Rodham Clinton's living history / Karrin Vasby Anderson -- Madeleine Albright and the rhetoric of Madame Secretary / C. Brant Short -- Finding the sensible center : Christine Todd Whitman's It's my party too as activist autobiography / Kristina Horn Sheeler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.
LCCN 2008011175
ISBN9780739119471 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0739119478 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780739119488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0739119486 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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