Rhetoric, Media, and U. S. Feminism 1830s-1980

A feminist/critical approach to the rhetoric surrounding the early women's rights movement beginning in the 1830s through 1920 and the women's liberation movement starting in the early 1960s through 1980 approximately. General foci include 1) treatment of women's rhetorical history and social, legal, religious, and psychological obstacles inhibiting their agency and 2) critical treatment of various strategies used by female rhetors to advance their causes. Speeches, essays, conventions, journals, newsletters, parades, and demonstrations may be considered as rhetorical forms.