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.

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.

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