Departmental News
Tonn Authors Chapter in Rhetorical History Volume
Associate professor Mari Boor Tonn is the author of a chapter in the newest volume of the A Rhetorical History of the United States series, published by Michigan State University Press. Tonn's chapter, entitled "Radical Labor in a Feminine Voice: The Rhetoric of Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn," appears in Volume V of the series.
Focused on reform movements in the 19th Century, Volume V of A Rhetorical History of the United States is entitled The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Reform. The years between 1870 and 1910 were filled with dramatic social, political and economic changes in the United States, the volume argues. In response, public discourse of the "Gilded Age" often drew on the tenets of Social Darwinism.
Citation: Mari Boor Tonn, "Radical Labor in a Feminine Voice: The Rhetoric of Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones and Elizabeth Curley Flynn," in The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Reform, edited by Martha S. Watson and Thomas R. Burkholder, pp. 223-254 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2008).
