The House of My Sojourn: Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority (review)

Itn The House of My Sojourn, Jane S. Sutton heeds President Barack Obama's mandate "to ask hard questions about why women ... do not occupy the high seats [in public life] " by exploring how, throughout the last two centuries, more and more American women have become public speakers a...

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Published in:Legacy (Amherst, Mass.) Mass.), 2012, Vol.29 (2), p.343-346
Main Author: Halpern, Faye
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthony, Susan B (1820-1906)
Epithets
Fairs & exhibitions
Gustafson, Sandra
Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880)
Obama, Barack
Rhetoric
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)
Telephones
Truth, Sojourner (1799-1883)
Women
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Summary:Itn The House of My Sojourn, Jane S. Sutton heeds President Barack Obama's mandate "to ask hard questions about why women ... do not occupy the high seats [in public life] " by exploring how, throughout the last two centuries, more and more American women have become public speakers at the same time their authority has been undermined (17). Audiences showered orators Frances Wright and Lucy Stone with epithets; the 1893 Chicago World's Fair included a Woman's Building, where the busts that became the Portrait Monument were initially displayed, but it was built far from the fair's central buildings; Amelia Schauer, a telephone operator (one of thousands who were hired toward the end of the nineteenth century), was arrested under suspicion of being a prostitute, simply for walking in a public place one night.
ISSN:0748-4321
1534-0643