Women in Rhetoric

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por Anna Rita Vizzari

focuses on: intersectionality, formalism, fragmented identities, and rhetoric as interdisciplinary study

focuses on activism, emphasis on universal rights, and emphasis on orator

focuses on plain language, pronunciation, mental capacities of humans, and abundant style

abundant style, less emphasis on religion, humanism

heavily religious, very moral, heavy in vernacular, and canons were reversed

moral code, worked within power structure, personal experiences, and transcendent truth

Women in Rhetoric

Renaissance Rhetoric

Margaret More Roper

one of the finest Renaissance scholars

limited her writings to translations, letters, private devotions, and diaries

translated Erasmus' "Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster"

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

wrote theological criticisms, poetry, plays

Mexican poet

Medieval Rhetoric

Margery Kempe

gave voice to the middle-class, uneducated woman

first woman to compose her life story in English

wrote about marriage, womanhood, and religion

Julian of Norwich

analyzed her audience and presented information accordingly

translated into vernacular

theological writer of the church

20th Cent. Rhetoric

Gloria Anzaldua

feminist theory

poet, professor, and essayist

19th Cent. Rhetoric

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

advocated for the legal rights of women

suffragist

abolitionist and women's right activist

Enlightenment Rhetoric

Mary Astell

Subtopic

proposed women could receive secular education

argued for women's education

writer and educator

Classic Rhetoric

Aspasia

was an inspiration to Pericles and Socrates

rhetorician and philosopher

distinguished herself in the public domain

Pythagorean Women

harmonia

equal opportunity for the sexes

moderation, social order, and harmony

Sappho

achievements were not connected to a male

Greek poet- lyrical talent