"All Men and Women Are Created Equal" : Elizabeth Cady Stanton's and Susan B. Anthony's Proverbial Rhetoric Promoting Women's Rights
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Wolfgang Mieder
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Table of contents
Contents: "These are the times that try women's souls". The Multifaceted Rhetoric of the Women's Rights Movement - "We were in every way suited to be yoke-fellows". The Proverbial Partnership of Two Liberated Work-Horses - "It is a herculean job - but we propose to compass it". The Letters as Proverbial Signs of Untiring Engagement - "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander". Folk Proverbs in the Speeches for Equal Rights for Women - "New rights bring new duties". Proverbial Quotations in Pointed Sociopolitical Writings - "All men and women are created equal". Women's Rights and the Declaration of Independence - "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people". A Call for Politics Based on the Consent of the Governed - "Equal p......
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About Wolfgang Mieder
Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for thirty-one years as the chairperson of the Department of German and Russian. He is an internationally acknowledged proverb scholar, the author of the two-volume International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology (2009), and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (since 1984). Among his more recent books in English are "Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric (2009), "Making a Way Out of No Way": Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric (2010), International Bibliography of Paremiography (2011), Proverbs: A Handbook (2012), and Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdo......