Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays

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Creator	Wright, Amanda R.
Abstract	American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman of It; or, Our Friends the Anti-Suffragists (1914) and The Parrot Cage (1914). The question that is the focus of this thesis is: how fitting were Mary Shaw’s plays as responses to the exigence of a lack of suffrage? The analysis that follows demonstrates the continued importance of proper audience identification for social justice movements.
License	All rights reserved
Resource Type	Masters Thesis
Date Available	2008-05-14T15:57:56+00:00
Date Issued	2008-05-02
Degree Level	Master's
Degree Name	Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)
Degree Field	Speech Communication Women Studies
Degree Grantor	Oregon State University
Commencement Year	2008
Advisor	Porrovecchio, Mark J
Committee Member	Simonsen, John Shaw, Susan M. Rossi, Marion O.
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Graduate School
Rights Statement	In Copyright
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/8486

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