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Flammang, Lucretia Anne.

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Josephine Butler's rhetoric of liberation: Prophetic voice in the Victorian women's movement.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Josephine Butler's rhetoric of liberation: Prophetic voice in the Victorian women's movement./
Author:	Flammang, Lucretia Anne.
Description:	285 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-05, Section: A, page: 1689.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-05A.
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9731792
ISBN:	9780591410884

Josephine Butler's rhetoric of liberation: Prophetic voice in the Victorian women's movement.
Flammang, Lucretia Anne.

Josephine Butler's rhetoric of liberation: Prophetic voice in the Victorian women's movement. - 285 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-05, Section: A, page: 1689.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 1997.

Regarded by Edwardian suffragists as "a great founding mother of modern feminism" (Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society, Cambridge UP, 1980: 255), Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler is now remembered for her leadership in the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts (1870-1886), which sought to regulate venereal diseases in prostitutes through registration, forced examination, and incarceration. Butler's leadership is significant because she publicly addressed explicitly sexual issues during a period when middle-class women were expected to profess ignorance about illicit sex. This study questions how Butler justified transgressing such cultural taboos while persuading people to help her liberate poor, vulnerable women from what she described as sexual slavery.

ISBN: 9780591410884Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.

Josephine Butler's rhetoric of liberation: Prophetic voice in the Victorian women's movement.
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520 $a Regarded by Edwardian suffragists as "a great founding mother of modern feminism" (Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society, Cambridge UP, 1980: 255), Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler is now remembered for her leadership in the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts (1870-1886), which sought to regulate venereal diseases in prostitutes through registration, forced examination, and incarceration. Butler's leadership is significant because she publicly addressed explicitly sexual issues during a period when middle-class women were expected to profess ignorance about illicit sex. This study questions how Butler justified transgressing such cultural taboos while persuading people to help her liberate poor, vulnerable women from what she described as sexual slavery.
520 $a Focusing mainly on three polemics Butler produced during the movement's first decade, this study employs rhetorical theory to explain how she appealed to diverse audiences. Central to the analysis is the role audience played in influencing the polemics' composition, which underscores the fundamental importance of ethos and authority. Rhetorical theorists consider ethos the most important rhetorical appeal in persuasion. Authority is related to cultural power and legitimacy. For Victorian women, these rhetorical concerns were extremely limiting because of the construction of the public woman as evil and sexually rapacious. Through exploiting the dominant terms of domestic ideology and by presenting herself as a modern prophet of God, however, Butler managed to establish ethos and authority.
520 $a In the 1871 speech "Address Delivered at Croydon," Butler appeals to the audience by alluding to Biblical prophecy and calls upon women to end their silence about prostitution. In The Hour Before the Dawn (1876), she addresses profligate men apocalyptically, revealing her own prophetic calling. Her apocalyptic vision is distinctive, for she asserts not that sinners ultimately will be destroyed but that they will be transformed through the power of God's love. In the biography Catharine of Siena (1878), Butler deploys the public work of the medieval mystic to authorize her own prophecy. Butler contributed invaluably to women's struggle for emancipation in two ways: by linking women's inequality to the sexual double standard and by breaking women's silence about their sexual subjugation to men.
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