Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric

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.

• IntroductionSection I: TIME: DISCOVERING, RECOVERING, AND COMPOSING HISTORIES1. Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Solidarities in the Viral Circulations of the LasTesis and Jina Movements2. Decolonial Possibilities: Retheorizing Chicana Feminist Rhetorics from a Performance Studies Paradigm3. Creating the “Shithole” Nation: Race, Gender, and Colonial Spacetime4. Holding Memory, Reclaiming Time: Women’s Biographies and Archives in the Arab(ic)-Islamic World5. Suffrage Commemoration in Times of COVID6. Thinking Different: Exchanging Archival Data across Transnational Time and Space7. Writing War: A History of the Lebanese Feminist Movement8. Surfacing Ecofeminist Rhetorics9. From “Feminine-ism” to “Women’s Rights/Power-ism”: Feminist Rhetorics in Post-Mao and 21st-Century ChinaSection II: SPACE: SETTING AND THEN TESTING BOUNDARIES: PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL LOCALES10. The Discursive Eviction of Muslim Women11. Water Walks, Indigenous Feminism, and the Persuasive Power of Anishinabekweg12. White Streaming. Black Aesthetics: Using Black Cyberfeminism to Make Sense of Cultural Appropriation in Digital Platforms13. Towards Expansive Care Vocabularies and Configurations: Disabled and Trans Care Collectives as a Site of Feminist Resistance14. Land Remediation, Multi-Genre Writing and Rooting Feminist Rhetorical Practices15. Caribbean Women Self-Creating Through Digital Footprints16. Third-Wave Feminist Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Rethinking Limitations, Possibilities, and New Directions17. Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Policing Gendered Bodies in TexasSection III: MOVEMENT: EXPLORING ACTIVISM, MIGRATION, AND GLOBALISM18. 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 Justice20. Transnational Chinese Digital Feminist Rhetorics: A Comparative Perspective21. Flux and Flow: Transgender Rhetorics and Abolitionist Praxes22. The Counterproductive Appeal of Shaming Gaslighters23. The Afterlives of Protest Images: The Myth of Togetherness in the Women’s Movement24. Intersectional Ecofeminist Food Rhetoric25. Queer(ing) Decolonial Feminist Rhetoric: SoVerano Boricua and Cuir Sentipensar26. As Long as the River Runs: Rhetorics of Indigenous Feminist ActivismSection IV: BEING: CELEBRATING (AND INSISTING ON) EMBODIED PRAXIS27. Complicating Public/Private Boundaries: Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and Micro-Performative Agency28. Remembrance as Practice: Sankofa and Pathos as Frameworks for Seeing and Hearing Black Women across Time29. Expanding Feminist Rhetorics: Toward an Embodied Fat Rhetorics30. Gut Feelings: Black Feminist Reverberations of Intuitive Theory31. Global Black Feminisms as Rhetorics of the Diaspora32. Necessary Foreclosures, or Notes on Consent as a Practice of Writing33. “We Won’t Back Down”: Feeling Abortion Rights Advocacy Rhetoric through Poetic Inquiry34. Breaking My Own Text: Surrendering into Writing that Works35. Still/Now Here: Feminist Forgetting and Lesbian PresenceSection V: BECOMING: TRANSFORMING HOPES INTO FEMINIST PRACTICE36. “Strength, Wisdom, Hope:” Transforming Menopause Stigma Through Feminist Rhetorical Practices37. Feeling Coalition with Asian American Student Publications38. “A Deep Relationality”: Reflections on Feminist Rhetoric from a Men’s Prison39. On Being Accountable: A Queer-Feminist Praxis of Refusal in but not of the Necropolitical University40. Postpartum and Disability: A Feminist Call for RJ-Crip Criticism41. Becoming Inhospitable, Becoming Imperceptible: Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in Videogames42. Chicana Feminist Rhetoric: Indigeneity and Activism43. The Methodological Promise of Black Feminism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies44. Crip Temporalities of Hope