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

Nielsen, Danielle (Author)

Gender and History
Volume: 34
Issue: 1
Pages: 59-76
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

URI: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0424.12530

DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12530

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Rhetorical analysis Cookbooks; recipes (food) Political activists and activism Women 20th century, early 19th century United States

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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