Monthly Archives: January 2016

Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America

Posted on January 28, 2016 by racheloriol

Mattingly, Carol. Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. Mattingly’s monograph looks at the way prominent white middle class women speakers in the U.S. were subject to the rhetorical boundaries of dress and attire … Continue reading →

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Life in Motion by Misty Copeland

Posted on January 22, 2016 by racheloriol

Copeand, Misty. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina. New York: Touchstone, 2014. e-book on my ipad. I read this memoir at first because I thought it might be important to just know about Misty’s rise to principal dancer for the … Continue reading →

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A Cup of Water Under my Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández

Posted on January 12, 2016 by racheloriol

Hernández, Daisy. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir. Beacon Press: Boston, 2014. I’m back at it: reflecting on the books I am reading for my dissertation (and some beyond). I have unfortunately begun to re-read material realizing that … Continue reading →

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