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  • Rhetoric and Resilience

    Exploring the Discourse of the Women Airforce Service Pilots Program

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    Rhetoric and Resilience explores discourse produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service Pilots program. Aviators such as Jacqueline Cochran and Nancy Harkness Love provided the initial rhetorical boost to successfully launch the program, while countless other pilots such as Cornelia Fort and Barbara Poole wrote to define the significance of the work the ... Read more

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  • The Rhetorical Arts of Women in Aviation, 1911-1970

    by Sara Hillin ...
    Series series Communicating Gender
    The Rhetorical Arts of Women in Aviation, 1911–1970: Name It and Take It explores the rhetorical strategies employed by women involved in aviation between 1911 and 1970. It begins with Harriet Quimby, who began writing aviation-themed articles for Frank Leslie's Weekly in 1911, and ends with Jerrie Cobb, one of the women who underwent a series of rigorous tests in the hopes of becoming an ... Read more

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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election

    Her Political and Social Discourse

    Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is anedited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary of State. This collection lends itself to the potential Democratic nomination of Clinton for U ... Read more

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  • Political Women

    Language and Leadership

    This collection examines the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they are still underrepresented in political leadership. In this text, scholars consider the various factors that continue to restrict political ... Read more

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  • Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics

    Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.Contributors analyze messages about food and bodies—from what a person watches and reads ... Read more

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  • Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

    Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness—of decision-making, data, and organizational structure—is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business.But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? With Wikipedia and the ... Read more

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  • Poets Beyond the Barricade

    Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960

    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions, and the interpretation of political events and ideas. In Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, ... Read more

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  • Rhetoric and Power

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  • Writing/Disciplinarity

    A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy

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    Over the past century, the explosive growth of scientific, technical, and cultural disciplines has profoundly affected our daily lives. However, processes of enculturation in sites such as graduate education that have helped to form these disciplines have received very limited research attention. In those sites, graduate students write diverse documents, including course papers, departmental ... Read more

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  • New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (Revised &Updated)

    The ultimate alphabetically arranged thesaurus that will help you find the right word every time—now bigger and better than ever before!This all-new edition of the classic reference work is the one thesaurus no home or office should be without. As easy to use as a dictionary—and just as important for you to own—this is a unique and indispensable treasury of words that will enable you to express ... Read more

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    Get your way . . . the smart way.Persuasion is the art of changing the way people think, feel, and act through the use of language. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Persuasion provides strategies for the readers to master the art of persuasion in a positive manner.By using time-honored tools of communication, body language, and psychology, readers can use persuasion to do good things like convince ... Read more

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