Telling political lives : the rhetorical autobiographies of women leaders in the United States /
edited by Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead.
- Lanham : Lexington Books, c2008.
- xi, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
- Lexington studies in political communication .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.
Women's autobiography as political discourse / Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead -- Getting from there to here: political rhetoric and African American orality in Barbara Jordan: a self-portrait / Brenda DeVore Marshall -- From housework to house work: the political autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder / Molly A. Mayhead and Brenda DeVore Marshall -- The "feisty" feminist from Queens: a feminist rhetorical analysis of the autobiographies of Geraldine Ferraro / Catherine A. Dobris -- Just like "azaleas in the spring": Elizabeth Dole as a daughter of the South / Nichola D. Gutgold -- All our relations: Wilma Mankiller's rhetoric of feminist ecology and Indian sovereignty / Emily Plec -- The personal is political: negotiating publicity and privacy In Hillary Rodham Clinton's living history / Karrin Vasby Anderson -- Madeleine Albright and the rhetoric of Madame Secretary / C. Brant Short -- Finding the sensible center : Christine Todd Whitman's It's my party too as activist autobiography / Kristina Horn Sheeler.