Feminist Connections

“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
 

"This beautiful collection of essays puts time, place, and space into rhetorical conversations that revisit and mash up traditional components of classical rhetoric. The editors clearly organize these interesting articles into three sections (revisionary, circulatory, response) that break new ground in archival and feminist research—focusing on various technologies, genres, and digital collections/work. Highlighting available means and rhetorical strategies, contributors address nuances of Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (RTM) in ways that illuminate/reify enduring significance of narratives we already know while shining light on new stories/storytelling. The result is most impressive, producing new theories for future research, novel understandings of both historical social movements and our own, and models for re-envisioning archival research methods and delivering these findings."
—judges' citation for the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric Composition (honorable mention)

“In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections: Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space and Place, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They’ve 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, Penn State University, and author of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope