The era between the Supreme Court’s (1875) Minor decision and the (1920) Anthony Amendment was marked by productive uncertainty about women’s citizenship status: they were citizens without the right to vote. This essay suggests that a handful of women seized upon the World’s Columbian Exposition to promote economic citizenship as an alternative for women. They promoted women’s economic participation in the fair’s dominant discourses of science and religion, and they rendered it a practice of citizenship in the language of republicanism and liberalism.

Book Review| December 01 2015 The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. By Jay P. Childers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012; pp. x + 220. $54.95 cloth; $27.95 paper. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 741–744. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0741 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 741–744. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0741 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay revisits William Jennings Bryan's campaign against evolutionary theory through analysis of four rhetorical moments—his platform orations “The Prince of Peace” (beginning in 1904) and “The Menace of Darwinism” (beginning in 1921), his testimony at the Scopes Trial, and his undelivered closing speech, “On Evolution.” In contrast to popular memory of Bryan as the fundamentalist fool, I maintain that he shared little rhetorical ground with his fundamentalist contemporaries, who tended to make arguments that used scientific reasoning to prove empirical facts of religious truth. Instead, Bryan opposed evolution through what Michael Lee has called the “populist argumentative frame,” a rhetorical orientation devoted to guarding the interests of the common people against an oppressive elite. Recognizing the populist foundations to Bryan's anti-evolution discourse, as well as the absence of fundamentalism in his discourse, helps to explain how Bryan fared so badly on the stand at the Scopes Trial.

Research Article| June 01 2013 Religious Dissociation in 2012 Campaign Discourse Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (2): 355–368. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.2.0355 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; Religious Dissociation in 2012 Campaign Discourse. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2013; 16 (2): 355–368. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.2.0355 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2012 The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. Steven D. Smith. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (4): 737–740. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940635 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2012; 15 (4): 737–740. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41940635 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2012 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2012 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2006 Finding Comedy in Theology: A Hopeful Supplement to Kenneth Burke's Logology Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philosophy & Rhetoric (2006) 39 (3): 208–232. https://doi.org/10.2307/20697154 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; Finding Comedy in Theology: A Hopeful Supplement to Kenneth Burke's Logology. Philosophy & Rhetoric 1 January 2006; 39 (3): 208–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20697154 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressPhilosophy & Rhetoric Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2006 The Pennsylvania State University2006The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.