We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The Lady, The Whore, and The Spinster: The Rhetorical Use of Victorian Images of Women.
- Authors
Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R.
- Abstract
All social movements face the problem of how effectively to alter the dominant discourse and its controlling images. Many groups directly confront this discourse. During the life of some movements, however, there is a subtle, and at times short-lived, strategy of utilizing the very discourse which the movement hopes to change. The strategic use of the dominant discourse against itself may be seen in an early address by Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, the "militant" arm of the English women's suffrage movement. Her speech, "The Importance of the Vote," accepted rather than negating the ruling discourse and its view of women. This unusual tactic provides new insight into the ways those with and without power relate to the dominant discourse.
- Subjects
SOCIAL movements; IMAGE; REPUTATION; DISCOURSE; WOMEN
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1990, Vol 54, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570319009374326