Available Means gathers the voices of seventy women rhetoricians--from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century--for the first time. Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald do so in the feminist tradition of recovering an unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Aspasia
"Pericles' Funeral Oration" from Plato's Menexenus (c. 387-367 B.C.E.)
Diotima
"On Love" from Plato's Symposium ( c. 360 B.C.E.)
Hortensia
"Speech to the Triumvirs" (42 B.C.E.)
Heloise
From "Letter I. Heloise to Abelard" (1132)
Julian of Norwich
From Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390s)
Catherine of Siena
"Letter 83: To Mona Lapa, her mother, in Siena" (1376)
Christine de Pizan
From The Book of the City of Ladies (1404)
Margery Kempe
From The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
Queen Elizabeth I
"To the Troops at Tilbury" (1588)
Jane Anger
From Jane Anger Her Protection for Women ... (1589)
Rachel Speght
From A Mouzzel for Melastomus (1617)
Margaret Fell
From Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
From "La Respuesta" (1691)
Mary Astell
From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Letter to Lady Bute" (1753)
Belinda
"Petition of an African Slave" (1782)
Mary Wollstonecraft
From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Cherokee Women
"Cherokee Women Address Their Nation" (1817)
Maria W. Stewart
"Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall" (1832)
Sarah Grimke
"Letter to Theodore Weld" (1837)
Angelina Grimke Weld
"Address at Pennsylvania Hall" (1838)
Margaret Fuller
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Seneca Falls Convention
"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848)
Sojourner Truth
"Speech at the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio" (1851)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
"We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866)
Susan B. Anthony
From the United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
Sarah Winnemucca
From Life Among the Piutes (1883)
Anna Julia Cooper
"The Higher Education of Women" (1892)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From "The Solitude of Self" (1892)
Fannie Barrier Williams
From "The Intellectual progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" (1893)
Ida B. Wells
"Lynch Law in All its Phases" (1893)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
From Women and Economics (1898)
Gertrude Buck
"The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" (1900)
Mary Augusta Jordan
From Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)
Margaret Sanger
"Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel" (1914)
Emma Goldman
From "Marriage and Love" (1914)
Alice Dunbar Nelson
"Facing Life Squarely" (1927)
Dorothy Day
"Memorial Day in Chicago" (1937)
Virginia Woolf
"Professions for Women" (1942)
Zora Neale Hurston
"Crazy for This Democracy" (1945)
Simone de Beauvoir
From the Introduction to The Second Sex (1952)
Rachel Carson
"A Fable for Tomorrow" (1962)
Fannie Lou Hamer
"The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman" (1971)
Adrienne Rich 267
"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1971)
Helene Cixous
From "Sorties" (1975)
Combahee River Collective
"The Combahee River Collective Statement" (1977)
Audre Lorde
"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1977)
Merle Woo
"Letter to Ma" (1980)
Alice Walker
"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" (1983)
Evelyn Fox Keller
From A Feeling for the Organism (1983)
Andrea Dworkin
"I Want a Twenty-Four Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape" (1983)
Paula Gunn Allen
"Grandmother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America" (1986)
Gloria Anzaldua
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (1987)
June Jordan
"Don't You Talk About My Momma!" (1987)
Trinh T. Minh-ha
From Woman, Native, Other (1989)
bell hooks
"Homeplace (as site of resistance)" (1990)
Nancy Mairs
"Carnal Acts" (1990)
Terry Tempest Williams
"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" (1991)
Patricia Williams
"The Death of the Profane" (1991)
Toni Morrison
"The Nobel Lecture in Literature" and "The Acceptance Speech" (1993)
Minnie Bruce Pratt
"Gender Quiz" (1995)
Dorothy Allison
From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)
Nomy Lamm
"It's a Big Fat Revolution" (1995)
Leslie Marmon Silko
"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" (1996)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From United States v. Virginia et al. (1996)
Ruth Behar
"Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart" (1996)
Gloria Steinem
"Supremacy Crimes" (1991)
Appendix A: Alternative/Rhetorical Table of Contents
A Select Bibliography of Works on Women's Rhetorics
Index