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Introduction; The Voice of the Nation: Gender, Speech, andNineteenth-Century American life; 1. Bawdy talk: The Politics of Women'sSpeech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The Lecturess; 2.'Foul Mouthed Women': Disembodiment and Public Discourse in Herman Melville'sPierre and E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Fatal Marriage; 3. Incarnate Words:Nativism, Nationalism, and the Female Body in Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures;4. Partners in Speech: Reforming Labor, Class, and the Working Woman's Bodyin Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner; 5. 'Queer Trimmings':Dressing, Cross-Dressing, and Women's Suffrage in Lillie Deereux Blake'sFettered for Life; 6. Southern Oratory and The Slavery Debate in Caroline LeeHentz's Planter's Northern Bride and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Lifeof a Slave Girl; Conclusion; 'Every Wrong that Needs a Voice': Women andPolitical Activism at the Turn into the Twentieth Century.