AFTER HER SILENCE: A RHETORICAL LOOK AT WRITERS FROM THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

Abstract

This thesis examines selected writings from the woman’s movement 1840-present. Selected writings from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Adrienne Rich, and bell hooks provide examples of how women across time periods have been viewed as the other, and how the rhetorical strategies of moral conflict, consciousness raising, and the personal as political have been used to subvert the dominant discourse of woman as other.