Feminist Connections

Katherine Fredlund is associate professor of English and director of the First-Year Writing Program at University of Memphis. Her scholarship has appeared in Rhetoric Review, College English, Peitho, Composition Forum, Feminist Teacher, and elsewhere.  Kerri Hauman is associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and composition and codirector of the First-Year Seminar Program at Transylvania University. Her scholarship has appeared in Pedagogy, Composition Studies, and Feminist Teacher.  Jessica Ouellette is assistant professor of English and women and gender studies and director of Writing Programs at the University of Southern Maine. Her scholarship has appeared in Computers and Composition, Peitho, Harlot, and elsewhere.

“This collection puts forward a groundbreaking methodology for exploring connections between feminist texts across time. Asking critics to momentarily suspend context, content, and media, the contributors foreground similarities between rhetorical strategies that emerged at different moments of feminist activism. This method enables critics to see the interstitial and intersectional relationships between and among feminist rhetorics of all eras, arguments, and media. This methodology enables critics to put into conversation Victorian novels with #LikeALadyDoc, Ida B. Wells with #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Jane Addams with #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica, women telegraphers with women coders, and early birth control technology with HIV prevention drugs.”—Belinda A. Stillion Southard, author of How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World “In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They have successfully disrupted feminist reception histories while seamlessly illuminating feminist social movement histories, feminist rhetorical strategies (both means and tools), and feminist technological epistemologies. Their collection, anchored in a method they refer to as Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (or RTM), prompts readers to face twenty-first-century questions of feminist rhetorical practices; historiographic relationships, intersections, and trajectories; and the constitution of digital work itself.”—Cheryl Glenn, University Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author most recently of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Writing against Reactionary Logics by Tarez Samra GrabanAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Exposing Feminist Connections by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica OuellettePart I. Revisionary Rhetorics by Kerri HaumanChapter 1. Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation by Jill Swiencicki, Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah UmanChapter 2. Epideictic Rhetoric and Emergent Media: From CAM to BLM by Tara PropperChapter 3. Recruitment Tropes: Historicizing the Spaces and Bodies of Women Technical Workers by Risa Applegarth, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Chelsea Redeker MilbourneChapter 4. Take Once Daily: Queer Theory, Biopolitics, and the Rhetoric of Personal Responsibility by Kellie Jean SharpPart II. Circulatory Rhetorics by Jessica OuelletteChapter 5. She's Everywhere, All the Time: How the #Dispatch Interviews Created a Sisterhood of Feminist Travelers by Kristin WinetChapter 6. From Victorian Novels to #LikeALadyDoc: Women Physicians Strengthening Professional Ethos in the Public Sphere by Kristin E. KondrlikChapter 7. Feminist Rhetorical Strategies and Networked Activist Movements: #SayHerName as Circulatory Activist Discourse by Liz LaneChapter 8. From US Progressive Era Speeches to Transnational Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addams's Labor Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandes's #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica (I, Housemaid) by Lisa BlankenshipPart III. Response Rhetorics by Katherine FredlundChapter 9. “Anonymous Was a Woman”: Anonymous Authorship as Rhetorical Strategy by Skye RobersonChapter 10. Tracing the Conversation: Legitimizing Mormon Feminism by Tiffany KinneyChapter 11. The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric by Clancy RatliffChapter 12. Mikki Kendall, Ida B. Wells, and #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color Calling Out White Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age by Paige V. BanajiChapter 13. The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives by Bethany MannonAfterword. (Techno)Feminist Rhetorical Action: Coming Full Circle by Kristine L. BlairBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex