Conversational rhetoric: the rise and fall of a women's tradition, 1600-1900

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.