Inventing Sacagawea: Public Women and the Transformative Potential of Epideictic Rhetoric

Winning Woman Suffrage in the Masculine West: Abigail Scott Duniway's Frontier Myth

“…Eva Emery Dye, for example, wrote The Conquest, a historical novel commemorating Sacagawea's role in pioneer history. Cindy Koenig Richards (2009) argues that by commissioning, producing, and dedicating the Sacajawea statue, Dye and other Pacific Northwest women engaged in important forms of public action, demonstrated their ability to lead, and venerated women in American history. Similarly, Western women like Frances Fuller Victor of California wrote novels that depicted pioneer women as exercising agency and autonomy beyond the cultural expectations of women of her time.…”

“A grand sisterhood”: Black American women speakers at the 1893 World’s Congress of Representative Women

“…32 Their position offered the opportunity to remedy white ignorance about the lives of Black women and to critique assumptions about white superiority, yet they had to temper their views sufficiently to garner the support of sympathetic white women. 33 These six "true race women" were among what Brittney Cooper has identified as the "first Black women intellectuals." 34 As Jacqueline Jones Royster explained, "this generation of African American women recognized the burdens they carried in the interest of the race," and they "used their rhetorical abilities" to advance those interests in public spaces.…”