Writing themselves into consciousness: Creating a rhetorical bridge between the public and private spheres

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-61

  Gring Pemble, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Antoinette brown blackwell; Consciousness raising; Letter writing; Lucy stone; Public sphere; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002782591     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639809384203     Document Type: Article

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