ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the reasons primarily in terms of women's rhetorics and argues that similar arguments could be made with respect to rhetorics of color and there is considerable overlap. Richard Enos contends in "Recovering the Lost Art of Researching the History of Rhetoric", feminist research in the history of rhetoric is perhaps the best current example of what humanistic scholarship in rhetoric can accomplish. Moreover, and most radically given the state of scholarship only ten years ago, Enos concludes his essay by holding up as models of the kind of historical research he is calling for, feminist scholars Lisa Ede, Cheryl Glenn, Andrea Lunsford, and other contributors to Andrea Lunsford's collection Reclaiming Rhetorica. Susan Jarratt is also too emotional, it seems, "intent on writing women into the history of rhetoric for the purpose of exposing male oppression and exclusion in order to liberate and empower women".