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Rhetorica Rising

Feminist Rhetorical Methods for Social Change

edited by Eileen E. Schell, K.J. Rawson, Curtis J. Jewell, Abigail H. Long, Sidney Turner, and Gabriella Wilson

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978-1-64336-610-4
Published: Oct 2 2025

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978-1-64336-586-2
Published: Oct 2 2025

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978-1-64336-611-1
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Advancing feminist rhetorical methods for social change

In a world marked by political polarization and racial, sexist, ableist, and class-based injustices, feminist rhetorical research is vital to ongoing struggles for social justice—in communities, in digital spaces, and in classrooms. Rhetorica Rising introduces a range of feminist rhetorical methods and methodologies that can help us understand social justice movements, past and present.

The collection highlights how the field of rhetorical studies has evolved over the past decade, taking up the challenge of creating intersectional feminist scholarship that engages with BlPOC histories and rhetorics, decolonial rhetorics, digital studies, disability studies, queer studies, transnational studies, and discourses regarding reproductive justice.

Includes essays by: Rachel Bloom-Pojar, Christina C. Cedillo, sarah madoka currie, Jessica Enoch, Tarez Samra Graban, Michael Healy, Ada Hubrig, Curtis J. Jewell, Stephanie Jones, Danielle Koepke, Rachel Lewis, Abigail H. Long, Andrea Riley Mukavetz, Timothy Oleksiak, K.J. Rawson, Jessica Restaino, Nelesi Rodrigues, Eileen E. Schell, Megan Schoettler, Sidney Turner, Gabriella Wilson, Carly S. Woods




Eileen E. Schell is professor of writing and rhetoric and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University.

K.J. Rawson is professor of English and women's, gender, and sexuality studies, and director of the Humanities Center, at Northeastern University. Schell and Rawson's numerous publications include the coedited volume Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies.

Curtis J. Jewell, Abigail H. Long, Sidney Turner, and Gabriella Wilson, are pursuing doctoral degrees in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program at Syracuse University.

"In Rhetorica Rising contributors recount novel, embodied methodologies for pushing the boundaries of feminist scholarly inquiry, interpreting ways in which hybrid research methods might be applied, expanded, and reconsidered and locating their reimaginings within discussions of positionality and social issues, cultural rhetorics, and activism."—Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University, coeditor of Remembering Women Differently

"Rhetorica Rising is a bold, brilliant celebration of feminism's rhetorical power to ignite real social change. This gathering of essential scholars provides needed clarity, conviction, and insight. This is must-read for anyone ready to raise their voice in this moment."—Aja Y. Martinez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, author of Counterstory

"Rhetoric Rising is a much-anticipated extension of the excellent work started in Rhetorica in Motion. Contributors offer feminist scholars tools, visions, and methods that are urgently needed in these tumultuous times!"—Rebecca Dingo, University of Massachusetts, author of Networking Arguments

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