Article ID: CBB473426412

Inventing a Space to Speak: Ethos, Agency and United States' Woman Suffrage Cookbooks (1886–1916) (2022)

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During the last forty years of the United States’ fight for woman suffrage, a handful of suffragists wrote cookbooks sponsored by suffrage organisations. These cookbooks created a rhetorical space and ethos within and through the kitchen. Because their activism was grounded in expected feminine actions, this home-bound ethos allowed the primarily white, middle-class suffragists to simultaneously advocate for women's suffrage in public and maintain their adherence to the Cult of True Womanhood. The arguments put forth in the cookbooks illustrate an ethos that is influenced by both personal agency and the rhetor's gendered, physical location in the kitchen. From this expected space, they made the more revolutionary argument for suffrage less discrediting.

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Authors & Contributors
Janet M. Davis
Johnson, Kenneth L.
Johnson, Karen A.
Turbil, Cristiano
Edwell, Jennifer
Fratto, Elena
Concepts
Women
Political activists and activism
Rhetorical analysis
Cookbooks; recipes (food)
Medicine
Eugenics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Italy
United Kingdom
Russia
France
Austria
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