Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Humanist Dialogues and Defenses of Women's Education: Conversation as a Model for All Discourse
  • Conduct Book Rhetoric: Constructing a Theory of Feminine Discourse
  • Defenses of Women's Preaching: Dissenting Rhetoric and the Language of Women's Rights
  • Elocution: Sentimental Culture and Performing Femininity
  • Conclusion: Composition Textbooks by Women and the Decline of a Women's Tradition.