TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing issues of context in historical women's public address
AU - Ramsey, E. Michele
PY - 2004/1/1
Y1 - 2004/1/1
N2 - Condit's (1993) positionalist perspective allows scholars to recognize the larger contexts of rhetoric by and about women so that we may better identify the ways that rhetors and audiences negotiate the relationships between public rhetoric, public vocabulary, and cultural contexts. They also point to the many representations of woman that rhetorical acts can encourage, suggest reasons why specific representations emerged when they did, and point to the implications of contradictory representations of woman put forth in rhetorical acts.
AB - Condit's (1993) positionalist perspective allows scholars to recognize the larger contexts of rhetoric by and about women so that we may better identify the ways that rhetors and audiences negotiate the relationships between public rhetoric, public vocabulary, and cultural contexts. They also point to the many representations of woman that rhetorical acts can encourage, suggest reasons why specific representations emerged when they did, and point to the implications of contradictory representations of woman put forth in rhetorical acts.
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U2 - 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162480
DO - 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162480
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745009183
SN - 0749-1409
VL - 27
SP - 352
EP - 376
JO - Women's Studies in Communication
JF - Women's Studies in Communication
IS - 3
ER -