Anna Clark, "The Rhetoric of Chartist Domesticity"
What is "domesticity"? What is a trope (please look the word up in a good dictionary)
What are the two functions of political rhetoric? (63-4 / 127-8)
What are the roots of Chartist rhetoric?
Why was domesticity important in Chartist language?
What are three discourses behind changes in the 1830s that served to exclude workers? Explain each
Why did Chartists assert sexual difference? Why did they make the distinction between manhood and childhood? (69-70 /130-1)
Why, according to Clark, was the violence exerted by the Chartists more of a "rhetorical" than a "real" threat?
At what point did the rhetoric about women in Chartism shift? How did Chartists go about convincing women to accept this shift? In other words, what was in it for them? (72-5 / 132-133)
How was female experience used for the Chartist cause?
How did the process of defining women's roles serve to limit them? How does this evidence tie into the theoretical work about women in the past that we've already encountered?
Was the definition of domesticity singular? Did men and women have the same understanding of what it meant? (77/134)
How did women's voice differ from men's?
Clark asserts that "female suffrage was difficult to reconcile with domesticity"? Why is this? How does this tie into male claims about their own work? (80-84 /136-8)
What were the "Plug Plot" riots?
In what two ways did women lose out in the Chartist struggle?
The last paragraph of Clarks piece is central to her argument. How does her evidence support the assertions she makes here?