Until very recently, the contribution of women to the history of rhetoric has gone unacknowledged. Current scholarship, however, reveals that traditional devinitions of the field have been too narrow, excluding the work of women rhetoricians. The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric demonstrates that women have indeed been involved in the field of rhetoric, almost since its inception, and have made a significant impact.

Christine Mason Sutherland is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, where she teaches the history of rhetoric and other courses in Communications. She has published on the rhetoric of Augustine of Hippo and on scientific rhetoric in the seventeenth century. In recent years, her research has been in the relationship of seventeenth century women to the rhetorical tradition. She has published many essays on Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell.

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Rebecca Sutcliffe received her Ph.D. in English from Simon Fraser University and has taught composition and professional writing at the University of Utah and the University of Saskatchewan. She has authored articles on women and writing for Technical Communication Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of Literary Biography. She is currently Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

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