\u27Talking It Over\u27 with Hillary: Domestic and Global Advocacy, 1995-2000

In July of 1995, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first “Talking It Over” column premiered in newspapers across the country and the globe. Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles, which produced and circulated this weekly syndicated column, has archived two hundred and ninety-one columns on their website. Dropped and suspended by many publications throughout its duration, “Talking It Over” was a controversial journalistic endeavor for its author, who was simultaneously accused of writing in a fashion that was “too political” and “not political enough.” Consequently, the existing scholarly appraisals of “Talking It Over” depict this column as being either incidental or a rhetorical failure in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first ladyship. Departing from this view, I seek to address in this dissertation the question of how Hillary Rodham Clinton used her newspaper column as a rhetorical resource for political advocacy from 1995 to 2000. To answer this question, I suggest that “Talking It Over” can be read fruitfully as an autobiographical text which made use of three complimentary rhetorical strategies: personal stories, narratives, and descriptions. Though “Talking It Over” is not an autobiography, I argue that it functions as an autobiographical text due to the various features and strategies employed in the column. I conclude that writing a weekly opinion column is both a record of political advocacy and a form of political advocacy in itself

Xavier University 166th Commencement, 2004

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Diversidad y (des)igualdad : el discurso del Partido Demócrata de los EEUU sobre derechos civiles

El presente trabajo de grado hace un análisis sobre el discurso del Partido Demócrata de los EEUU en materia de derechos civiles, particularmente alrededor de las categorías de género, raza e identidad sexual. Esto se logra a partir del estudio de caso de los discursos SOTU (State of the Union) de los presidentes Bill Clinton y Barack Obama.The following paper analyzes the discourse of the Democratic Party of the United States of America in relation to civil rights, particularly around the categories of gender, race and sexual identity. This is done through the study of SOTU (State of the Union) speeches that were pronounced by former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.Comunicador (a) SocialPregrad