Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Working Women in(to) Rhetorical History (Jessica Enoch and David Gold)
1. Republicanism, Religiosity, and the Rhetoric of Women’s Labor Reform in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830–1850 (Amy J. Wan)
2. From Slave to Seamstress: Elizabeth Keckley’s Rhetoric of Emotional Labor (Patty Wilde)
3. Louisa May Alcott’s Work : A New True Working Woman (Nancy Myers)
4. “Opulent Friendships,” Rhetorical Emulation, and Belletristic Instruction at Leache-Wood Seminary (Pamela Vanhaitsma)
5. Resituating Rhetorical Failure: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Metallurgist Carrie Everson (Sarah Hallenbeck)
6. Professional Proof: Arguing for Women Photographers at the Fin de Siècle (Kristie S. Fleckenstein)
7. Making Use of the Mundane: The Women’s Trade Union League’s Fight to Give Working Women a Voice (Marybeth Poder)
8. Figuring Vice: Sex, Women, and Work in Kate Waller Barrett’s Exhibitionist Rhetoric (Heather Brook Adams and Jason Barrett-Fox)
9. Bodies of Praise: Epideictic Figures in the Independent Woman (Risa Applegarth)
10. To Labor with Dignity: Alberta Hunter’s Respectability and Resistance Rhetoric (Coretta M. Pittman)
11. Profiting from Rhetorical Domesticity: Fashion Magnate Nell Donnelly Reed’s Discursive Seams, 1916–1956 (Jane Greer)
12. Babe Didrikson Zaharias’s Rhetorical Branding: When It’s Not Enough to Be the World’s Greatest Woman Athlete (Lisa J. Shaver)
13. In Rosie’s Shadow: World War II Recruitment Rhetoric and Women’s Work in Public Memory (Michelle Smith)
14. “Other Peoples’ Kitchens”: Invisible Labor and Militant Voice during the Early Cold War (Jennirfer Keohane)
15. Gossard Girls Are Good Girls: Labor Activism at a 1949 Garment Factory Strike (Carly S. Woods and Kristen Lucas)
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index