Political women: language and leadership

Introduction / Diane M. Blair

I: Initial women moving forward : a fight for language

Epideictic memories : the argument for spatial agency in Frances E. Willard's A wheel within a wheel / Kristie Fleckenstein

"Shall America retain the faith of our fathers?" : Aimee Semple McPherson and the California gubernatorial campaign of 1934 / William Carney

From the Good Ship Lollipop to the White House : ethos and the invitational rhetoric of Shirley Temple Black / Sara Hillin

II : A shift to modern day : a look at leadership

Averting crisis : women as heads of state and rhetorical action / Rebecca S. Richards

Leadership and the [vice] presidency : the nomination acceptance speeches of Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin / Michele Lockhart

No laughing matter : Saturday Night Live's portrayal of Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin / Kathleen Mollick

Meghan McCain is GOP proud : a rhetorical analysis of the polical discourse surrounding feminist leadership in the Republican Party / Nichelle D. McNabb and Rachel B. Friedman

III : Women and politics : 2012 and the future of women leaders in America

The female email : examining the leadership and rhetoric of female representations of the 2012 Obama campaign / Alison Novak and Janet Johnson

Western women's ethos and a response to privilege : advocacy in Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Women's rights are human rights" / Nancy Myers

Media and Hillary Clinton's political leadership : a model for understanding construction of collective memory / Mary Tucker-McLaughlin and Kenneth Campbell

Electing the commander in chief : the gender regime and Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign rhetoric / Maria Daxenbichler and Rochelle Gregory

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