Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century DES009000 Spellbound Pike

Spellbound Pike

Giving a personal dimension to the issues discussed

Hilary Moore

with the full cooperation of Vance

ISBN10: 1948765365

Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century DES009000 Spellbound PikeIn June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty first century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle's ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as