Literacy heroines : women and the written word / Alice S. Horning.

"Literacy Heroines is about twelve amazing women who lived and worked in the period 1880-1930 who used their literacy abilities to address major issues in the country in those years, including some we still face today: racism, sexism, voting rights, educational and economic inequality, health dispar...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in composition and rhetoric ; vol. 11.
Main Author: Horning, Alice S. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2021]
Series:Studies in composition and rhetoric ; vol. 11.
Subjects:
Literacy > United States > History.
Language arts > United States > History.
Women educators > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Women heroes > United States.
Language arts.
Literacy.
Women authors, American.
Women educators.
Women heroes.
Women social reformers.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Educators. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) and schooling for African American girls
  • Gertrude Buck (1871-1922) and rhetorical theory and practice
  • Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) and the Moonlight Schools
  • Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) and Native American civil rights
  • Part 2. Activists. Jane Addams (1860-1935) and Hull House
  • Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) and the NAACP
  • Lillian Wald (1867-1940) and public health nursing
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) and the anti-lynching movement
  • Part 3. Writers. Nella Larsen (1891-1964) and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) and the woman's era
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) and Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) and the Muckrakers
  • Lessons and conclusions.