Description: Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians--from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century--a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric.
Review Quotes: In Available Means Ritchie and Ronald select women's voices from Aspasia across the generations and situate them on a rhetorical landscape, thus documenting ways in which women rhetors have used language both artfully and with social and political consequence. This collection contributes greatly to our ongoing efforts to reconceptualize the history of rhetoric in more inclusive terms and to generate analytical and interpretive frames that permit a deeper and different understanding of rhetorical practices. Students, teachers, researchers, and scholars are certain to benefit from this remarkable resource.-- "Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ohio State University"