List of female rhetoricians

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Women's Rhetoric

Female Rhetoricians

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The following is a list of women and their major works who have considerably contributed and shaped the rhetorical discourse of women over time:

1. Aspasia

1.1 Plato’s Menexenus

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2. Diotima

2.1 Plato’s Symposium (c. 360 B.C.E.)

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3. Hortensia

3.1 "Letter I. Heloise to Abelard" (1132)

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4. Catherine of Siena

4.1 "Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena" (1376)

5. Christine de Pizan

5.1 The Book of the City of Ladies (1404)

6. Laura Cereta

6.1 "Letter to Bibulus, Sempronius, Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women" (1488)

7. Margery Kempe

7.1 The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)

8. Margaret Fell

8.1 Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666)

9. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

9.1 "La Respuesta" (1691)

10. Mary Astell

10.1 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)

11. Mary Wollstonecraft

11.1 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

12. Maria W. Stewart

12.1 "Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall" (1832)

13. Sarah Grimke

13.1 "Letter to Theodore Weld" (1837)

14. Margaret Fuller

14.1 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

15. Sojourner Truth

15.1 "Speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio" (1851)

16. Fances Ellen Watkins Harper

16.1 "[We Are All Bound Up Together]]" (1866)

17. Susan B. Anthony

17.1 The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)

18. Sarah Winnemucca

18.1 Life Among the Piutes (1883)

19. Anna Julia Cooper

19.1 "The Higher Education of Women" (1892)

20. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

20.1 "The Solitude of Self" (1892)

21. Fannie Barrier Williams

21.1 "The Intellectual Progress of Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" (1893)

22. Ida B. Wells

=22.1 "Lynch Law in All its Phases" (1893)

23. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

23.1 Women and Economics (1898)

24. Gertrude Buck

24.1 "The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" (1900)

25. Mary Augusta Jordan

25.1 Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)

26. Margaret Sanger

26.1 "Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel" (1914)

27. Emma Goldman

27.4 "Marriage and Love" (1914)

28. Alice Dunban Nelson

28.1 "Facing Life Squarely" (1927)

29. Dorothy Day

29.1 "Memorial Day in Chicago" (1937)

30. Virginia Woolf

30.1 "Professions for Women" (1942)

31. Zora Neale Hurston

31.1 "Crazy for This Democracy" (1945)

32. Simoe de Beauvoir

32.1 The Second Sex (1952)

33. Rachel Carson

33.1 "A Fable for Tomorrow" (1962)

34. Adrienne Rich

34.1 "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1971)

35. Helene Cixous

35.1 "Sorties" (1975)

36. Julia Kristeva

36.1 "Women’s Time" (1979)

37. Audre Lorde

37.1"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1977)

Merle Woo

"Letter to Ma" (1980)

Alice Walker

"In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens" (1983)

Evelyn Fox Keller

A Feeling for the Organism (1983)

Andrea Dworkin

"I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape" (1983)

Paula Gunn Allen

"Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America" (1986)

Gloria Anzaldua

Borderlands (1987)

June Jordan

"Don’t You Talk About My Momma!" (1987)

Trinh T. Minh-Ha

"Women, Native, Other" (1989)

Bell Hooks

"Homeplace (a site of resistance)" (1990)

Nancy Mairs

Carnal Acts (1990)

Terry Tempest-Williams

"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" (1991)

Minnie Bruce Pratt

"Gender Quiz" (1995)

Dorothy Allison

Two of Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)

Nomy Lamm

"It’s a Big Fat Revolution" (1995)

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )

"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" (1996)

Ruth Behar

"Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" (1996)

Gloria Steinem

"Supremacy Crimes" (1999)