Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

ISBN 10: 0822945886 / ISBN 13: 9780822945888

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822945886
• ISBN 13: 9780822945888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Women at Work presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women’s labor evangelism in the textile industry, the rhetorical constructions of leadership within women’s trade unions, the rhetorical branding of a twentieth-century female athlete, the labor activism of an African American blues singer, and the romantic, same-sex collaborations that supported pedagogical labor. Women at Work also introduces readers to rhetorical methods and approaches possible for the study of gender and work. Contributors name and explore a specific rhetorical concern that animates their study and in so doing, readers learn about such concepts as professional proof, rhetorical failure, epideictic embodiment, rhetorics of care, and cross-racial coalition building.

About the Author

David Gold (Editor)
David Gold is Associate Professor of English, Education, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.

Jessica Enoch (Editor)
Jessica Enoch is professor of English at the University of Maryland. Enoch is director of academic writing and is an affiliate member of the women’s studies department.