Writing themselves into consciousness: Creating a rhetorical bridge between the public and private spheres

Through an analysis of Antoinette Brown Blackwell's Oberlin College correspondence with Lucy Stone, this case study explores one way-letter writing-that nineteenth-century women developed a shared feminist consciousness: how they explored their identity as women, became aware that other women s...

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Published in:The Quarterly journal of speech 1998-02, Vol.84 (1), p.41-61
Main Author: Gring-Pemble, Lisa M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Blackwell (Antoinette Brown)
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825-1921)
Case studies
Communication Research
Consciousness Raising
Content Analysis
Empowerment
Female Bonding
Females
Feminism
Feminist Scholarship
Higher Education
History
letter writing
Letters
Letters (Correspondence)
Lucy Stone
Minority Groups
Nineteenth Century
Political Attitudes
Public Opinion
public sphere
Rhetoric
Sex Role Identity
Social Change
social movements
Stone (Lucy)
Stone, Lucy (1818-93)
Womens Education
Womens rights movements
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Summary:Through an analysis of Antoinette Brown Blackwell's Oberlin College correspondence with Lucy Stone, this case study explores one way-letter writing-that nineteenth-century women developed a shared feminist consciousness: how they explored their identity as women, became aware that other women shared their experiences, and felt empowered to enact specific changes in society. The central argument developed in this essay is that the consciousness-raising process constructed in these letters functioned as a "pre-genesis" stage of the social movement we now identify as the women's rights movement.
ISSN:0033-5630
1479-5779
DOI:10.1080/00335639809384203