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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Allegory, Actual Women Enter the Commemorative Landscape; Notes; 1 Eleanor Roosevelt as Coda; Initial Rhetorical Situation; Design Stalemate; Traditional Commemoration No Longer Appropriate; New Rhetorical Situation; Eleanor Roosevelt in the Niche; Eleanor Roosevelt's Rhetorical Situation; The Rhetorical Situation Shifts; Eleanor Roosevelt Challenges Decorum; Compensatory Representation; Notes; 2 The Portrait Monument's Radical Message |
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The Portrait Monument's OriginsWhy Anthony, Stanton, and Mott; Alice Paul and Adelaide Johnson's Prescience; The Radical Portrait Monument; The Plaque Breaks Decorum; The Capitol Rotunda or Bust; Aesthetic Decorum; Artistic Decorum and the Rhetorical Situation; Intersectionality Enters the Rhetorical Situation; The Portrait Monument's Future; Notes; 3 The Politics of Optimism at the Women's Rights National Historical Park; History as Celebration; Politics of Representation; Rhetorical Constraints Define Message; Rhetoric of Location |
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The Declaration of Sentiments Defines Women's Political IssuesWesleyan Chapel's Authenticity Versus Seneca Falls; The New Decorum; Visitor Center's Decorum; Self-Administered Rhetorical Constraints; Site's History Inflects Message; Notes; 4 Women's Patriotism in War: Vietnam Women's and Women in Military Service for America Memorials; VWM's Rhetorical Situation; Rhetorical Situation Evolves; First Rhetorical Response to The Wall; Three Servicemen Evokes Demand for Gender Representation; Gender, Vietnam, and Commemorative Politics Collide; Gender Yes, Antiwar No; Apolitical Metaphorical Women |
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Women in Military Service for AmericaPro-Military and Pro-Women; WIMSA's Ideal Location; Breaking the Glass Ceiling Rhetorics; WIMSA Decorum; WIMSA'S Orientation Film; Commemorating Military Women's Service; Notes; 5 Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park and the Social Construction of Power; Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park's Rhetorical Situation; Richmond's Rhetorical Location; RORI Walking Tour; The Rosie the Riveter Memorial's Rhetorical Situation; The Reality of We Can Do It; Rosie in the Year 2000 |
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The NPS Changes Rosie the Riveter Memorial's Rhetorical SituationThe Fourth-Stage of Representation Emerges; Women and Shipbuilding Decorum; Representing Women's History in the Fourth Stage; Notes; Conclusion: After Absence, the Complications of Presence; Notes; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Archives and Manuscript Collections; Newspapers; Interviews; Government Documents; Secondary Sources; Index |
| Abstract |
The Commemoration of Women in the United States examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first. The analysis centers on six case examples of memorialization, and explores broad themes of cultural representation. Bergman argues that the construction, or relocation, of a series of prominent national memorials together form a significant moment of change in the ways in which women are commemorated in the US. The historic and present-day challenges facing such commemoration are examined, with reference to broader political debates. The case examples explored are the Women in the Military Service for America Memorial; the Women's Rights National Historic Park; the Vietnam Veterans Women's Memorial; the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park; the Eleanor Roosevelt Statue in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and the Portrait Monument of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Providing insightful and grounded analysis of the history and practice of the commemoration of women in the US, this book makes useful reading for a range of scholars and students in subjects including heritage studies, communication studies, and history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Biographical note | Teresa Bergman is Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA. Her research incorporates an interdisciplinary methodology that includes memory studies, rhetoric, documentary film theory, and critical/cultural studies. Her articles have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly and the Western Journal of Communication. Her book Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites (2013), won the 2013 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 03, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version : 9781629583808 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021761517 |
| ISBN | 9780203705193 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 020370519X (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781351339582 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1351339583 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781351339575 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1351339575 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781351339568 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1351339567 (electronic book) |
| Standard identifier# |
10.4324/9780203705193 |
| Stock number | 9780203705193 Taylor & Francis |
