Uses fantasy theme analysis to examine how the women's movement rose from early small-group interaction to high visibility and acceptance by the public. Focuses on two organizations from 1967-77: the Twin Cities Female Liberation Group and the National Organization for Women, Twin Cities chapter. (PD)

Argues that the 1848 and 1963 feminist social movements are one rhetorical movement and that feminism as a rhetorical movement is typified by an ideological conflict between the concepts of "womanhood" and "personhood," summed up by the term "consciousness raising." (PD)

Noting that romances are the first reading choice of noncollege educated women and the second choice among college-educated women, this study examined the rhetorical visions of male/female relationships on romances and found they have reflected social changes and the movement from patriarchy to equality of the sexes. (PD)

Reconstructs Lloyd Bitzer's situational model to serve as a guide for the generation of multiperspectival critical assessments of rhetorical discourse. Uses two of President Bush's speeches on the drug crisis to illustrate how the reconstructed model can account for such modern problems as multiple audiences, perceptions, and exigencies. (PA)