Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we look at more offerings from SIU Press in celebration of Women's History Month.
In We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women, Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.
After portraying Mary Lincoln in hundreds of performances and giving lectures over a more than thirty-year career, Donna D. McCreary has fielded every imaginable inquiry about the First Lady. In her book Mary Lincoln Demystified: Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham’s Wife, readers will find answers to the most frequently asked questions to come from live audiences.
Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick, by Andrea Friederici Ross, is the thrilling story of a daughter of America’s foremost industrialist, John D. Rockefeller, and is complete with sex, money, mental illness, and opera divas—and a woman who strove for the independence to make her own choices.
In Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930, Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post-suffrage organizations—the League of Women Voters and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom—challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful speakers and teachers of rhetoric.
We Are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II, by Mary Weaks-Baxter, Christine Bruun and Catherine Forslund, weaves together the individual World War II experiences of students and faculty at the all-female Rockford College (now Rockford University) in Rockford, Illinois, to draw a broader picture of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history.
