The Women of Peace and Preparedness: Motherhood and Maternalism in World War I – Lisa Mastrangelo

On February 12, 2017, our lecture series, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of World War I, featured Lisa Mastrangelo, PhD, who teaches Composition and Rhetoric and Professional Writing courses at Centenary College, and is the author of World War I, Public Intellectuals, and the Four Minute Men: Convergent Ideals of Public Speaking and Civic Participation. Dr. Mastrangelo is writing a paper on the uses of propaganda in WWI: The Rhetoric of Maternalism: The Use of Motherhood as a Trope in World War I. In addition, she serves as the Vice President for the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Composition and Rhetoric.