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Telling Political Lives - The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States (Paperback)
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Telling Political Lives - The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States (Paperback)
Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
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This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara
Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole,
Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and
Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity
that permeates the cultural backgrounds, life adventures, and
ideologies women bring to the political table. From differences in
race, class, and geographic location, to variations in personal and
family experiences, religious beliefs, and political ideology,
these women illustrate many of the divergent standpoints from which
women craft their lives in the United States. Each essay focuses on
the autobiographical text as political discourse and therefore, as
an appropriate site for the rhetorical construction of a personal
and civic self situated within local and national political
communities. The collection examines issues such as the
intersection between the "politicization of the private and the
personalization of the public" evident in the women's narratives;
the description of U.S. politics the women provide in their
writings; the ways in which the women's personal stories craft
arguments about their political ideologies; the strategies these
women leaders employ in navigating the gendered double-binds of
politics; and, the manner in which the women's discourse serves to
encourage, instruct, and empower future women leaders. The analyses
embody and explicate the political and rhetorical strategies these
leaders employ in their efforts to act on their convictions,
highlight the need for and reality of women's involvement in all
levels of politics, and serve as an impetus and inspiration for
scholars and activists alike.
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