The woman's page : journalism and rhetoric in early Canada /

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.

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : strong statement, trenchant ideas, promising plans
  • Anges Maule Machar, Christian radical
  • The uses of wit : Sara Jeannette Duncan's self-fashioning
  • 'This graceful olive branch of the Iroquois' : Pauline Johnson's rhetoric of reconciliation
  • Gossip, chit-chat, and life lessons : Kit Coleman's womanly persona
  • Heroines and martyrs in the cause : suffrage as holy war in the journalism of Flora MacDonald Denison
  • Nellie McClung and the rhetoric of the Fair Deal
  • Conclusion.