Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women's Colleges, 1884-1945

by David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs, Catherine L Hobbs

In this illuminating volume, David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs examine rhetorical education at eight colleges providing a better understanding of not only how women learned to read, write, and speak in American colleges but also how they used their education in their lives beyond college. The authors also consider how women's education in speech, writing, and rhetoric affected their career choices, the role of race at these schools, and the legacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080933285X
• ISBN13: 9780809332854
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"