Here’s our approach to the remaining three books:

Read all introductions and conclusions; choose chapters of interest from all three; pool our knowledge.

We’ll begin with Johnson (a senior scholar and lead feminist historiographer), follow with Enoch (young scholar at Pittsburg who studied with Cheryl Glenn), and finish with Gold (young scholar at U of Tennessee who studied with Linda Ferreira-Buckley and whose dissertation won the Rhetoric Society dissertation award). Please choose from all books a total of FIVE chapters (in addition to the intros and conclusions of each book). If your project demands that you begin with Gold or Enoch—go ahead. You’ll catch up with earlier readings later.

Nan Johnson, Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910.

Read the Introduction and Chapter 5: “Noble Maids and Eloquent Mothers, Off the Map”

Choose among the following:

            Chapter 1: Parlor Rhetoric and the Performance of Gender

            Chapter 2: Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space

            Chapter 3: “Dear Millie”: Letter Writing and Gender in Postbellum America

            Chapter 4: Noble Maids Have Come to Town.

Jessica Enoch, Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students 1865-1911.

Read Chapters 1 and 5 (introduction and conclusion).

Choose among the following teacher-centered chapters:

            Chapter 2: Lydia Maria Child and The Freedmen’s Book

            Chapter 3: Zitkala-Sa and the Carlisle Indian School

            Chapter 4: Jovita Idar, Marta Peña, Leonor Villegas de Magnón, and La Crónica

David Gold, Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947.

Read the Introduction and the Conclusion.

Choose among the following school-centered chapters—all Texas Schools:

            Chapter 1: A Private Black College

            Chapter 2: A Public Women’s University

            Chapter 3: A Rural Normal College