About the Author

Joy Ritchie teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, rhetoric, and women's studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was coordinator of composition from 1995-2000 and is currently director of Women's Studies. Her most recent book, c

Reviews

Available Means is an important and unparalleled addition to recent recovery and revisionist scholarship concerning women's rhetoric." . . . another important work published under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture.-- "South Atlantic Review"

In Available Means Ritchie and Ronald select women's voices from Aspasia across the generations and situate them on a rhetorical landscape, thus documenting ways in which women rhetors have used language both artfully and with social and political consequence. This collection contributes greatly to our ongoing efforts to reconceptualize the history of rhetoric in more inclusive terms and to generate analytical and interpretive frames that permit a deeper and different understanding of rhetorical practices. Students, teachers, researchers, and scholars are certain to benefit from this remarkable resource.-- "Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ohio State University"

This volume adds greatly to rhetorical thought and history . . . Most importantly, though, is not only that these essays present an important contribution to thetorical tradition but it expands the canon by representing essays not previously over-anthologized.-- "Feminist Academic Press Column"