Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies

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Edited by Jessica Enoch and Jordynn Jack Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-094-7 (paperback, $34); 978-1-64317-095-4 (hardcover, $65); 978-1-64317-096-1 (PDF, $19.99); 978-1-64317-097-8 (EPUB, $19.99) © 2019 by Parlor Press, with bibliography and index. 332 pages. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews Rong Wan, Rhetoric Review , vol. 40, no. 4, 2021, pp: 430–32. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07350198.2021.1961191 Nanette Rasband Hilton, "Review," Peitho : Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition , vol. 24, 2021. About This Book In Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies , the contributors use the anniversary of the publication of Cheryl Glenn’s Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance , the first book to examine women’s contributions to rhetoric across history, as an opportune moment to assess feminist rhetorical research and test out new possibilities. Together, the essays ask, what does it or should it mean to engage rhetoric from a feminist perspective? Each chapter addresses one of four aspects of this question, including the place of feminist rhetoric in contemporary (real-world and transnational) politics; the relationship between feminist rhetorical studies and identity studies; the prospects for feminist research methods and methodologies; or the feminist rhetorical commitment to “paying it forward” through teaching and mentoring. Collectively, the essays push scholars to expand the national boundaries of rhetorical inquiry to include women’s roles in global politics. Contributors also engage in intersectional analyses of gender and other vectors of power (including, here, religious affiliation and sexuality), considering identities as epistemic resources for rhetors. To