Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric explores the histories, concerns, and possible futures of feminist rhetorical work in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Featuring work from scholars across disciplines, this book explores where we have been, where we are, and where we might be going. Forwarding key areas of study in feminist rhetoric, the handbook is divided into five interrelated sections—Time: Discovering, Recovering, and Composing our Histories; Space: Setting and Testing Boundaries: Physical and Digital Locales; Movement: Exploring Activism, Migration, and Globalism; Being: Celebrating (and Insisting on) Embodied Praxis; and Becoming: Transforming Hopes into Feminist Practice. Throughout the handbook, contributors survey and document the critical work of feminist rhetoric, pointing to ongoing interests in history, politics, and activism while showcasing new lines of inquiry and new methods of analysis, critique, and intervention.
The first of its kind, this accessibly written handbook will be an indispensable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of rhetoric, writing studies, communication studies, and women's and gender studies.
Contents
Introduction
Section I: TIME: DISCOVERING, RECOVERING, AND COMPOSING HISTORIES
1. Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Solidarities in the Viral Circulations of the LasTesis and Jina Movements
2. Decolonial Possibilities: Retheorizing Chicana Feminist Rhetorics from a Performance Studies Paradigm
3. Creating the "Shithole" Nation: Race, Gender, and Colonial Spacetime
4. Holding Memory, Reclaiming Time: Women's Biographies and Archives in the Arab(ic)-Islamic World
5. Suffrage Commemoration in Times of COVID
6. Thinking Different: Exchanging Archival Data across Transnational Time and Space
7. Writing War: A History of the Lebanese Feminist Movement
8. Surfacing Ecofeminist Rhetorics
9. From "Feminine-ism" to "Women's Rights/Power-ism": Feminist Rhetorics in Post-Mao and 21st-Century China
Section II: SPACE: SETTING AND THEN TESTING BOUNDARIES: PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL LOCALES
10. The Discursive Eviction of Muslim Women
11. Water Walks, Indigenous Feminism, and the Persuasive Power of Anishinabekweg
12. White Streaming. Black Aesthetics: Using Black Cyberfeminism to Make Sense of Cultural Appropriation in Digital Platforms
13. Towards Expansive Care Vocabularies and Configurations: Disabled and Trans Care Collectives as a Site of Feminist Resistance
14. Land Remediation, Multi-Genre Writing and Rooting Feminist Rhetorical Practices
15. Caribbean Women Self-Creating Through Digital Footprints
16. Third-Wave Feminist Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Rethinking Limitations, Possibilities, and New Directions
17. Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Policing Gendered Bodies in Texas
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)
19. Pursuing Autonomy: Movements in Reproductive Justice
20. Transnational Chinese Digital Feminist Rhetorics: A Comparative Perspective
21. Flux and Flow: Transgender Rhetorics and Abolitionist Praxes
22. The Counterproductive Appeal of Shaming Gaslighters
23. The Afterlives of Protest Images: The Myth of Togetherness in the Women's Movement
24. Intersectional Ecofeminist Food Rhetoric
25. Queer(ing) Decolonial Feminist Rhetoric: SoVerano Boricua and Cuir Sentipensar
26. As Long as the River Runs: Rhetorics of Indigenous Feminist Activism
Section IV: BEING: CELEBRATING (AND INSISTING ON) EMBODIED PRAXIS
27. Complicating Public/Private Boundaries: Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and Micro-Performative Agency
28. Remembrance as Practice: Sankofa and Pathos as Frameworks for Seeing and Hearing Black Women across Time
29. Expanding Feminist Rhetorics: Toward an Embodied Fat Rhetorics
30. Gut Feelings: Black Feminist Reverberations of Intuitive Theory
31. Global Black Feminisms as Rhetorics of the Diaspora
32. Necessary Foreclosures, or Notes on Consent as a Practice of Writing
33. "We Won't Back Down": Feeling Abortion Rights Advocacy Rhetoric through Poetic Inquiry
34. Breaking My Own Text: Surrendering into Writing that Works
35. Still/Now Here: Feminist Forgetting and Lesbian Presence
Section V: BECOMING: TRANSFORMING HOPES INTO FEMINIST PRACTICE
36. "Strength, Wisdom, Hope:" Transforming Menopause Stigma Through Feminist Rhetorical Practices
37. Feeling Coalition with Asian American Student Publications
38. "A Deep Relationality": Reflections on Feminist Rhetoric from a Men's Prison
39. On Being Accountable: A Queer-Feminist Praxis of Refusal in but not of the Necropolitical University
40. Postpartum and Disability: A Feminist Call for RJ-Crip Criticism
41. Becoming Inhospitable, Becoming Imperceptible: Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in Videogames
42. Chicana Feminist Rhetoric: Indigeneity and Activism
43. The Methodological Promise of Black Feminism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
44. Crip Temporalities of Hope
