Available Means: An Anthology Of Women's Rhetoric(s)

“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC



Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho’s writing remains only in fragments, partly due to the passage of time, but mostly as a result of systematic efforts to silence women’s voices. Sappho’s hopeful boast captures the mission of this anthology: to gather ...