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In" Women Seen and Heard, experienced public speakers share their
wisdom on how to get ready for and deliver dynamic presentations,
whether to co-workers or managers, small groups and formal
audiences or at community and political events. Until recently,
women were in the background supporting men in leadership
positions; but now, they are a powerful force for leading change.
Given the complexity of issues facing our society, the public needs
to hear from women of diverse backgrounds in the debates and
discussions that will shape our future. When it comes to leadership
opportunities, today's women leaders want more than a level playing
field - they want the advantage of having exceptional speaking
skills.
Use the gigs you get to get the gigs you want. You spend a ton of
time building your personal brand to generate more speaking
opportunities. You write a blog, record podcasts, post on
Instagram, and upload to YouTube. You refine your speaking website,
work on that book, participate in Clubhouse, and comment on
LinkedIn. You share your expertise and insight freely. All of that
hard work might get you one gig. And, unfortunately, none of those
things will guarantee you the next gig. But what if you became a
referable speaker? In this ground-breaking guide to building a
speaking career, New York Times bestselling author Michael Port,
co-founder of Heroic Public Speaking, teams up with bestselling
author and world-renowned keynote speaker Andrew Davis to show you
the fastest, most practical way to increase your fee and generate
more leads. Discover precisely how event organizers select their
keynote speakers, what you can do to win them over, and even how to
set your fee. Port and Davis show you why you need to stop
investing in marketing yourself as a great speaker and start
investing in your speech. Because, unless you're famous, event
organizers won't buy you (or your personal brand). They'll buy your
speech, then your idea, then you in that order. You'll learn
exactly how 81 speakers built sustainable speaking revenues by
evaluating the three F+E+E Factors and 10 sub-factors-factors that
turn novice presenters into transformational keynote speakers. And
you'll evaluate how to make the most meaningful impact through 58
professional speaker case studies based on six years of industry
data. See how elegantly simple it is to make the leap from breakout
rooms to the keynote stage. You'll leave with an entirely new,
eye-opening, and refreshing understanding of how the speaking
business really works and how you can make an impact fast. Do you
have what it takes to become a referable speaker? You do. Go ahead,
take a look inside!
Now known to the Chinese as the ""ten years of chaos,"" the Chinese
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese
and persecution to millions. In Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural
Revolution Xing Lu identifies the rhetorical practices and
persuasive effects of the polarizing political language and
symbolic practices used by Communist Party leaders to legitimize
their use of power and violence to dehumanize people identified as
class enemies. Lu provides close readings of the movement's primary
texts--political slogans, official propaganda, wall posters, and
the lyrics of mass songs and model operas. She also scrutinizes
such ritualistic practices as the loyalty dance, denunciation
rallies, political study sessions, and criticism and self-criticism
meetings. Lu enriches her rhetorical analyses of these texts with
her own story and that of her family, as well as with interviews
conducted in China and the United States with individuals who
experienced the Cultural Revolution during their teenage years. In
her new preface, Lu expresses deep concern about recent
nationalism, xenophobia, divisiveness, and violence instigated by
the rhetoric of hatred and fear in the United States and across the
globe. She hopes that by illuminating the way language shapes
perception, thought, and behavior, this book will serve as a
reminder of past mistakes so that we may avoid repeating them in
the future.
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and
sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized
politics. Violence against people of color, transgendered and gay
people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party
affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing
political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their
racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom
of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of
these white men's speech, few notice or have thoughtfully
considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and
conservative white women's messages that organizationally preserve
white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity
Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how
white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and
web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation
of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational
politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness
through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood
discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a
Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind
racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework
becomes fodder for conservative white women's political speech to
preserve institutional white supremacy.
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