“In Lives, Letters, and Quilts, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan reveals how both the pen and the needle are mightier than the sword for women crafting persuasive arguments. For those interested in the history of women’s everyday rhetorics of resistance and rebellion, this is the monograph to read.”
—Maureen Daly Goggin, coauthor of Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750–1950
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“Lives, Letters, and Quilts is an engaging read. The case study chapters provide interesting background and analysis, and as a study of quotidian forms of rhetorical resistance, this book makes a valuable contribution.”
—Robert E. Terrill, author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship
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“Lives, Letters, and Quilts makes a considerable intervention in the history of rhetoric, focusing on over 150 years of letter-writing campaigns, practices of contemplation, and quiltmaking. Sohan’s rousing cast of characters brings translingual aptitudes to civic deliberation, persuading as forcefully through cloth, design, and stillness as through words.”
—Christopher Carter, author of Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema
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