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Vote and Voice Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930

Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent postsuffrage organizations-the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors. Vote and Voice is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement. During those years, women still did not have power within deliberative and administ.

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