2008/04/01 by Maegan Parker · 17 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Rhetoric and Communication Studies #Literature: history, themes, analysis #Philosophy, History, and Historiography #Rhetorical question #Citizenship #Suffrage #Argument (complex analysis) #Race (biology) #Identity (music) #National identity #Sociology #Gender studies #Political science #Law #Aesthetics #Philosophy #Politics #Literature #Art
paper · doi:10.1080/07491409.2008.10162522
published in Women s Studies in Communication 31(1), 56-78 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2008/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The debate between Frances E. Willard (1839–1898) and Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) concerning the horrors of lynching in the 1890s was also, and I argue fundamentally, about the expansion of citizenship. A rhetorical analysis of this public argument, which spanned nearly a decade and took place before national and international audiences, offers a glimpse into how sexual desire, race, and gender functioned as mutually constitutive categories of identity in turn-of-the-century struggles for suffrage.