A sphere of noble action: Gender, rhetoric, and influence at a nineteenth-Century Massachusetts state normal school

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-64

  Rothermel, Beth Ann ^a  

^a WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 13944253452     PISSN: 02773945     EISSN: 1930322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02773940309391245     Document Type: Article

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