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Those who wanted to hit the big time could undergo a course of training as rigorous as that for an opera singer.

By late in the nineteenth century there were more than a dozen large schools of elocution in North America, all with large teaching staffs, and all providing courses of four years or more, with strict examinations and diplomas for the graduates. They were as large as any of the music conservatories in their respective communities and enjoyed just as much prestige.

Their fees were as high as those of a university. Eaton School of Expression, also in Toronto. Such ambition often was made of stern stuff. Baker, like a good many other hopefuls in southern Ontario, journeyed to Toronto once a week to study under Owen Smiley, a self-trained elocutionist who had no trouble collecting six dollars a lesson — at a time when six dollars was a week's pay for a bank clerk.

Baker did her tour of duty in town hall and church concerts, then, believing that human expression was capable of better things, went to London and studied at the speech and oratory departments of the Royal Academy of Music.

Modern speech art is as different from the old elocution techniques as a modern functional living room is from the rococo furnishings of a Victorian parlor. Baker says. Certain facial expressions were taught through imitation. When an elocutionist looked over the heads of the audience and showed the white of the eyes below the pupils it was supposed to mean that she was looking into a great distance. Looking straight ahead was Fate. Eyes turned to the side and upwards denoted reflection.

The hands and the arms made beautifully curved gestures from the centre of the body outwards. The sky called for a great sweeping arc with the arms, waves were expressed by a gentle undulation of the wrists; when sky and stars were mentioned it called for the sweeping gesture with the arms plus a twinkly movement with the fingers. For galloping, imaginary reins were held and the body was moved in imitation of riding, something like small boys playing cowboys and Indians.

The works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. James Whitcomb Riley. John Greenleaf Whittier and others of equal profundity were strong favorites, as well as Henry Drummond's French-Canadian dialect verse, and the simpler or more sentimental works of Burns. Longfellow and Tennyson. Emlyn Williams, the English elocutionist, could please the most sophisticated audience with his readings from Charles Dickens, and another Englishman. Professor Ducksbury, awed his listeners with Biblical readings, especially his rendition of the Book of Job.

Few Canadian performers could compete with the imports. The surprising thing is that much of the better talent in this country was found among the amateurs.

The Rt. Bennett as a young school teacher in New Brunswick, used to recite at school concerts and church gatherings. Ralph Connor, the writer and minister, was always in demand as an elocutionist. Bliss Carman made several coast to coast tours, packing them in with recitals of his own verse. Carman, tall and lanky, with a mop of long, wiry hair, a care-. But for most professional elocutionists, earning a dollar meant a few nights each year before big-city audiences, and the rest of the time on the town-hall and Sunday-school-auditorium circuit.

Jessie Alexander recalled in , towards the close of her public career, that she had given recitations in prisons, universities, drawing rooms, hospitals, churches, military.

Miss Alexander toured the West, traveling as often in a caboose as in a coach. She mentioned that one passenger train a day each way across the prairies made it difficult to fill as many engagements as she would wish. White had been so captivated by her performance that he arranged for her to be allow-.

Once, while traveling by horse and rig from one Manitoba town to another, she decided to shorten the trip by cutting right across the fenceless prairie. The homesteader led the horse to a Presbyterian manse a couple of miles further on, where Miss Alexander spent the night.

She missed her engagement but when she appeared the following evening the schoolroom was packed. Inevitably, this has meant that I have tuned in to some of the less encouraging and pessimistic stories out there. The conversations I see and hear in the classroom, on social media, and on the news are still wrought with misogynistic undertones, ones which see feminine traits as less desirable but also see women without feminine traits as less desirable—a double-edged sword, so to speak.

I think it is exactly this kind of environment that discourages women from pursuing leadership positions. These double standards and double binds certainly hold women back when it comes to finding success in politics. No wonder women seem to be so unelectable! Female politicians of the past and present have endured many struggles when it comes to trying for, and being in, political leadership positions, and our society still seems to be uncomfortable with the idea of women being in positions of power.

All we have to do is turn to statistics to see it. UN Women estimates that globally men represent 77 percent of parliamentarians, 82 percent of government ministers, 93 percent of heads of government, and 94 percent of heads of state. We can also turn and look at the treatment of female leaders in the media and in the press. After seeing these prejudices and biases against women unfold around me, my childhood dream of becoming prime minister has certainly become less appetizing.

That being said, while I have become aware of all of the double binds and double standards and daunting challenges women in politics are facing, I believe it is possible to find a way to push back on these prejudices and look toward creating space for a brighter future for female leaders.

Positive changes are already well on their way, and in we are at a place women could have only dreamed about even just twenty years ago.

We are seeing a greater willingness of society to have a more open, honest and vulnerable conversation about these struggles, and we are starting to see society actively try and change the way we think about and treat women in politics through the means of education, ads, social media, female role models, and allies. The success and support for the female pandemic power players, like Jacinda Arden and Angela Merkel mentioned earlier, certainly point to this.

So, while the first part of my book will walk through double binds, double standards, and challenges that act as a barrier to women in their political careers, the second part of my book will show how I see things changing for the better, and the third part will walk through the steps we can take as a society to continue this progress.

Through this debunking of the close-minded and exclusive concepts of gender and leadership that have been reinforced for centuries, I believe we will be able to overcome this paradox still hindering female leaders.

I have confidence that women of the future will be electable, as long as we continue to address and work on changing our beliefs and attitudes about gender and leadership through these conversations.

In writing this book I hope I can be part of this conversation and, through my own personal research, conversations, and self-reflections, contribute to this critical debunking process. I also hope this book will provide a vision for a way forward in creating a space for a female-led future. While I want this book to encourage you to look inwards, to recognize your subconscious preconceptions and biases, to think about where you come from and why you think the way you do even if it is a little uncomfortable , I also want you to look outward and look to one another to talk, listen, learn, support, and act on this issue.

So, if you are an aspiring female leader, know an aspiring female leader, or just want to see women being given an equal chance to be one for a change, then this book is for you. Read it in order or out of order, read it all at once or flip through it when you have a break, take notes, pass it around to friends, share its stories and its message, and share what you think about them with others.

Get the conversation going. It is by doing this that women can finally be seen as electable. Cerrar sugerencias Buscar Buscar. Saltar el carrusel. Carrusel anterior. Carrusel siguiente. Puedes cancelar cuando quieras. Editorial: New Degree Press. Publicado: Apr 28, ISBN: Formato: Libro.

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