
Reading and analysis of the speech "Child Labor and Women's Suffrage" by Florence Kelley. Recommended for high school. Especially of interest to AP Language and Composition classes.
Rhetorical analysis of this speech, presented to the National American Woman's Suffrage Association in 1905.
Analysis and explanation of the rhetorical triangle, the interactions between speaker, audience, and subject that shape a speaker's rhetoric.
Analysis of the speech in its context.
This is a wonderfully impressive and effective speech, which makes use of imagery and anecdote, statistics, rhetorical questions, parallelism, and various other rhetorical strategies.
Third in a series focusing on female authors and feminist themes, in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Text of the speech can be found here:
https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/09/child-labor-womens-suffrage-july-22-1905/