The Woman's Page : : Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada / / Janice Fiamengo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Fiamengo, Janice ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, journalism, politics, and social advocacy were largely male preserves. Six women, however, did manage to come to prominence through their writing and public performance: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeannette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison, and Nellie L. McClung. The Woman's Page is a detailed study of these six women and their respective works.Focusing on the diverse sources of their rhetorical power, Janice Fiamengo assesses how popular poetry, journalism, essays, and public speeches enabled these women to play major roles in the central debates of their day. A few of their names, particularly those of McClung and Johnson, are still well known today, although studies of their writings and speeches are limited. Others are almost entirely unknown, an unfortunate fact given the wit, intelligence, and passion of their writing and self-presentation. Seeking to return their words to public attention, The Woman's Page demonstrates how these women influenced readers and listeners regarding their society's most controversial issues.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Strong Statement, Trenchant Ideas, Promising Plans -- 1. Agnes Maule Machar, Christian Radical -- 2. The Uses of Wit: Sara Jeannette Duncan's Self-Fashioning -- 3. 'This graceful olive branch of the Iroquois': Pauline Johnson's Rhetoric of Reconciliation -- 4. Gossip, Chit-Chat, and Life Lessons: Kit Coleman's Womanly Persona -- 5. Heroines and Martyrs in the Cause: Suffrage as Holy War in the Journalism of Flora MacDonald Denison -- 6. Nellie McClung and the Rhetoric of the Fair Deal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index