Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Preface 1
5. Plenary Address
6. Women in the History of Rhetoric: The Past and the Future 9
7. Excluded from the Rhetorical Tradition
8. Plato's Women: Alternative Embodiments of Rhetoric 35
9. Cutting Off the Memory of Women 47
10. Alongside the Rhetorical Tradition
11. Ethos Over Time: The Ongoing Appeal of St. Catherine of Siena 59
12. Verbum inuisibile palpabitur: Les Sibylles dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle: La répétition comme poétique de Voracle 73
13. Verbum inuisibile palpabitur: The Sibyls in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century: Repetition as Oracular Poetics 85
14. English Emblem Book Reception Theory and the Meditations of Renaissance Women 97
15. Account of the Experience of Hester Ann Rogers: Rhetorical Functions of a Methodist My site's Journal 109
16. Participating in the Rhetorical Tradition
17. Women and Latin Rhetoric From Hrotsvit to Hildegard 121
18. Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the Rhetoric of Female Abuse 133
19. Mary AsteWs Rhetorical Theory: A Woman's Viewpoint 147
20. Emerging into the Rhetorical Tradition
21. The Public Woman: Women Speakers Around the Turn of the Century in Sweden 161
22. Flora MacDonald Denison and the Rhetoric of the Early Women's Suffrage Movement in Canada 173
23. Resisting Decline Stones: Gertrude Buck's Democratic Theory of Rhetoric 183
24. Engaging the Rhetorical Tradition
25. Re-inventing Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway's and Nicole Brossard's Embodied Visions 199
26. Feminist Epistemologies, Rhetorical Traditions and the Ad Hominem 213
27. Voice and the Inevitability of Ethos 225
28. Feminist Thoughts on Rhetoric 237
29. Afterword 249
30. Notes on Contributors 257
31. Index 263