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Author:   Alice S. Horning ,  Leonard Podis ,  Alice S. Horning
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781433162008

ISBN 10:   1433162008
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Educators – Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) and Schooling for African American Girls – Gertrude Buck (1871–1922) and Rhetorical Theory and Practice – Cora Wilson Stewart (1875–1958) and the Moonlight Schools – Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891) and Native American Civil Rights – Activists – Jane Addams (1860–1935) and Hull-House – Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) and the NAACP – Lillian Wald (1867–1940) and the Henry Street Settlement – Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), Social Justice and the Antilynching Movement – Writers – Nella Larsen (1891–1964) and the Harlem Renaissance – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) and the Woman’s Era – Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) and Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Ida Tarbell (1857– 1944) and the Muckrakers – Lessons and Conclusions – Index.

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Alice Horning has produced a volume that carefully highlights the critical roles twelve American women from the late nineteenth- to mid-twentieth century played as 'literacy heroines,' using their exceptional reading and writing abilities to enhance the skills of their own cultural contemporaries. Horning, a specialist in literacy, reading, and writing, explains how these already accomplished women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sarah Winnemucca, Jane Addams, Gertrude Buck, and Ida Wells-Barnett, drew on their literacy to develop self-improvement in others and social justice for all. These critical goals are both pertinent-and indeed urgent-today. -Shirley Wilson Logan, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland With Literacy Heroines, Alice Horning offers us the profiles and contributions of some major literacy sponsors whose literacy labors helped shape American education, social activism, and culture from the turn of the century to the early quarter of the twentieth century. These women understood the potent force of critical reading and writing, and Horning underscores how their literacy efforts act as exemplary models for our own twenty-first century literacy sponsorships. -Mark McBeth, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and English Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center/CUNY

“Alice Horning has produced a volume that carefully highlights the critical roles twelve American women from the late nineteenth- to mid-twentieth century played as ‘literacy heroines,’ using their exceptional reading and writing abilities to enhance the skills of their own cultural contemporaries. Horning, a specialist in literacy, reading, and writing, explains how these already accomplished women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sarah Winnemucca, Jane Addams, Gertrude Buck, and Ida Wells-Barnett, drew on their literacy to develop self-improvement in others and social justice for all. These critical goals are both pertinent—and indeed urgent—today.” —Shirley Wilson Logan, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland “With Literacy Heroines, Alice Horning offers us the profiles and contributions of some major literacy sponsors whose literacy labors helped shape American education, social activism, and culture from the turn of the century to the early quarter of the twentieth century. These women understood the potent force of critical reading and writing, and Horning underscores how their literacy efforts act as exemplary models for our own twenty-first century literacy sponsorships.” —Mark McBeth, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and English Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center/CUNY

Author Information

Alice S. Horning is Professor Emerita of Writing & Rhetoric/Linguistics at Oakland University, where she focused on the intersection of reading and writing. Her most recent work is the co-edited Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News, published by Peter Lang (with Ellen Carillo). She is the editor of the Studies in Composition and Rhetoric book series for Peter Lang.

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