Women at Work

Rhetorics of Gender and Labor
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4588-8
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture

Studies of women’s rhetorics to date have focused largely on the civic arena and the home. These two spheres are clearly important, but they ignore another vital arena: the workplace. Women at Work presents fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore, for example, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gold, David

Enoch, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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