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Character invention in the letters of Maimie Pinzer
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In this paper, a case study of autobiographical letters written by a turn-of-the-century prostitute to a Boston matron is presented, where the author uses several rhetorical strategies to recreate her character so as to persuade her audience that she is worthy of respect.Abstract:
The concept of “narrative” is becoming an avenue through which scholars can privilege nontraditional forms of communication. Communication scholars have been attempting to discover how some narratives may “ring true” with an audience by studying the strategies of the storytellers. This study brings these two impulses together through a case study of autobiographical letters written by a turn of the century prostitute to a Boston matron. In creating a narrative of her life, the author uses several rhetorical strategies to recreate her character so as to persuade her audience that she is worthy of respect. In so doing, she also persuades herself.read more
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Writing Themselves into Consciousness: Creating a Rhetorical Bridge between the Public and Private Spheres.
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Rhetorical Functions of Letter Writing: Dialogic Collaboration, Affirmation, and Catharsis in Dolores Huerta's Letters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the letters that Dolores Huerta wrote to Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and 1970s to better understand her role in the United Farm Workers (UFW) union and the functions of letter writing for individuals, who faced constraining ideologies of race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
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Not All Capitalist Stories Are Created Equal: Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Narrative and the Deep Divide in American Economic Rhetoric
TL;DR: This article argued that the economic narratives circulating in American democracy actually construct a tale of two economies, a tangible economy and a speculative economy, and that Mitt Romney's Bain Capital narrative placed him on the wrong side of this economic divide.
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Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives
Mary Jo Maynes,Shirley N Garner +1 more
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"Coming to writing" and other essays
TL;DR: The authors presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors, Helene Cixous, who explores how the problematics of the sexes-viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaningmanifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.
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The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918
TL;DR: Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come as discussed by the authors, which will surely be the case for many decades to come.
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The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era
TL;DR: The response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context has been studied in this paper, where the authors show how the antiprostitution movement became a focus for many of the anxieties and social tensions of the period.
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Women in Communication Studies: A Typology for Revision.
Carole Spitzack,Kathryn Carter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, five conceptualizations of women dominate contemporary research practices in communication studies: Womanless Communication; Great Women Communicators; Woman as Other; The Politics of Woman as other; Women as Communicators.