The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric

Introduction

Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley

SECTION I: TIME: DISCOVERING, RECOVERING, AND COMPOSING HISTORIES

1. Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Solidarities in the Viral Circulations of the LasTesis and Jina Movements

Mais T. Al-Khateeb, Sweta Baniya, Rebecca Dingo and Jennifer Nish

2. Decolonial Possibilities: Retheorizing Chicana Feminist Rhetorics from a Performance Studies Paradigm

Sara Baugh-Harris and Bernadette Calafell

3. Creating the “Shithole” Nation: Race, Gender, and Colonial Spacetime

Christina Cedillo

4. Holding Memory, Reclaiming Time: Women’s Biographies and Archives in the Arab(ic)-Islamic World

Rasha Diab

5. Suffrage Commemoration in Times of COVID

Jessica Enoch

6. Thinking Different: Exchanging Archival Data across Transnational Time and Space

Tarez Samra Graban

7. Writing War: A History of the Lebanese Feminist Movement

Nicole Khoury

8. Surfacing Ecofeminist Rhetorics

Kathleen J. Ryan

9. From “Feminine-ism” to “Women’s Rights/Power-ism”: Feminist Rhetorics in Post-Mao and 21st-Century China

Hui Wu

SECTION II: SPACE: SETTING AND THEN TESTING BOUNDARIES: PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL LOCALES

10. The Discursive Eviction of Muslim Women

Lamiyah Bahrainwala

11. Water Walks, Indigenous Feminism, and the Persuasive Power of Anishinabekweg

Guadalupe Gonzalez and Kristin Arola

12. White Streaming. Black Aesthetics: Using Black Cyberfeminism to Make Sense of Cultural Appropriation in Digital Platforms

Kishonna Gray and Kathryn Kohls

13. Towards Expansive Care Vocabularies and Configurations: Disabled and Trans Care Collectives as a Site of Feminist Resistance

Ada Hubrig

14. Land Remediation, Multi-Genre Writing and Rooting Feminist Rhetorical Practices

Vani Kannan and Alicia Grullôn

15. Caribbean Women Self-Creating Through Digital Footprints

Shewonda Leger

16. Third-Wave Feminist Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Rethinking Limitations, Possibilities, and New Directions

Valerie R. Renegar and Stacey K. Sowards

17. Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Policing Gendered Bodies in Texas

Jen Wingard

SECTION III: MOVEMENT: EXPLORING ACTIVISM, MIGRATION, AND GLOBALISM

18. Fostering a New Consciousness of Material Relationality: Merging Ubuntu and Feminist New Materialisms in African Feminist Digital Activism in Africa (Ghana)

Mavis Boatemaa Beckson

19. Pursuing Autonomy: Movements in Reproductive Justice

Erin A. Clark

20. Transnational Chinese Digital Feminist Rhetorics: A Comparative Perspective

Chen Chen

21. Flux and Flow: Transgender Rhetorics and Abolitionist Praxes

Lore/tta LeMaster and Meggie Mapes

22. The Counterproductive Appeal of Shaming Gaslighters

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

23. The Afterlives of Protest Images: The Myth of Togetherness in the Women’s Movement

Efe Plange

24. Intersectional Ecofeminist Food Rhetoric

Norie R. Singer

25. Queer(ing) Decolonial Feminist Rhetoric: SoVerano Boricua and Cuir Sentipensar

Karrieann Soto Vega

26. As Long as the River Runs: Rhetorics of Indigenous Feminist Activism

Luhui Whitebear

SECTION IV: BEING: CELEBRATING (AND INSISTING ON) EMBODIED PRAXIS

27. Complicating Public/Private Boundaries: Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and Micro-Performative Agency

Jennifer Andrus

28. Remembrance as Practice: Sankofa and Pathos as Frameworks for Seeing and Hearing Black Women across Time

Ronisha Browdy

29. Expanding Feminist Rhetorics: Toward an Embodied Fat Rhetorics

Katie Manthey

30. Gut Feelings: Black Feminist Reverberations of Intuitive Theory

Alexis McGee

31. Global Black Feminisms as Rhetorics of the Diaspora

Suban Nur Cooley

32. Necessary Foreclosures, or Notes on Consent as a Practice of Writing

Timothy Oleksiak

33. “We Won’t Back Down”: Feeling Abortion Rights Advocacy Rhetoric through Poetic Inquiry

Clancy Ratliff

34. Breaking My Own Text: Surrendering into Writing that Works

Jessica Restaino

35. Still/Now Here: Feminist Forgetting and Lesbian Presence

Jacqueline Rhodes

SECTION V: BECOMING: TRANSFORMING HOPES INTO FEMINIST PRACTICE

36. “Strength, Wisdom, Hope:” Transforming Menopause Stigma Through Feminist Rhetorical Practices

Lori Beth De Hertogh and Cathryn Molloy

37. Feeling Coalition with Asian American Student Publications

Allison Dziuba

38. “A Deep Relationality”:  Reflections on Feminist Rhetoric from a Men’s Prison

Susan C. Jarratt

39. On Being Accountable: A Queer-Feminist Praxis of Refusal in but not of the Necropolitical University

Gavin P. Johnson

40. Postpartum and Disability: A Feminist Call for RJ-Crip Criticism

Stephanie R. Larson and Emily Winderman

41. Becoming Inhospitable, Becoming Imperceptible: Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in Videogames

Rebecca S. Richards

42. Chicana Feminist Rhetoric: Indigeneity and Activism

Iris Ruiz

43. The Methodological Promise of Black Feminism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Cecilia D. Shelton

44. Crip Temporalities of Hope

J. Logan Smilges

Biography

Jacqueline Rhodes is the Joan Negley Kelleher Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at The University of Texas at Austin. Her work on queer and feminist rhetorics has been published in journals such as College Composition & Communication, College English, Computers & Composition, enculturation, JAC, Pre/Text and Rhetoric Review. She edited Rhetoric Society Quarterly from 2020–2023. Her books have won a number of awards, including the 2014 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and the 2015 Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award. Notably, she is a three-time winner of the CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship. In 2022, she was awarded (with frequent collaborator Jonathan Alexander) the CCCC Exemplar Award.

Suban Nur Cooley is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. She blends the rhetorics of identity and belonging, cultural and digital literacies, and Black feminist theory to help build understanding and broaden perspectives of how we define and value all forms of writing. She was the 2021 recipient of the CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award and the 2023 recipient of the RSQ Charles Kneupper Award. Her work focuses on the impact of migration and displacement on culture and global Black diaspora feminisms.