
Transnational Feminist Rhetorics
Remobilizing Solidarities
Pennsylvania State University Press
Will be published approx. on 13. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-0-271-10218-4 (ISBN)
Description
In a moment marked by transnational gender, climate, health, and human rights crises, the question of how to build feminist solidarities across difference has never been more urgent. This book amplifies the rich genealogies and ongoing conversations that shape studies of transnational feminist rhetorics (TFR), asking what solidarity can mean and do under contemporary global conditions.
With case studies from Africa, South Asia, China, Latin America, and Australia, among others, this collection theorizes the three interdisciplinary terms that define the subfield-transnational, feminist, and rhetorical-in order to reimagine the affordances and limitations of TFR for solidarity-building. The volume features a wide range of essays-on topics such as Ghanaian bead practices, testimonio as an embodied Latinx methodology, and protests against Chinese zero-COVID policies-that examine the stories, histories, and embodied experiences of activists organizing across transnational feminist networks. Through careful attention to everyday praxis, literacies, and survival strategies, the contributors showcase how people working across geopolitical scales confront local oppression with global structural origins and effects. Offering new methodologies and a reconfiguration of disciplinary boundaries, the volume pushes the field of TFR toward imagining and enacting critical solidarities across difference.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Mavis Boatemaa Beckson, Chen Chen, Yuanfang Dai, Rebecca Dingo, Lisa Emerson, Izzy Fox, Esteve Giraud, Tarez Samra Graban, Nancy Henaku, Kimberly Jenerette, Theresa A. Kulbaga, Elenore Long, Rachel Riedner, Ana Roncero-Bellido, Eileen E. Schell, Sanjay Sharma, Melissa Stone, Susan E. Thomas, and Jennifer Wingard.
With case studies from Africa, South Asia, China, Latin America, and Australia, among others, this collection theorizes the three interdisciplinary terms that define the subfield-transnational, feminist, and rhetorical-in order to reimagine the affordances and limitations of TFR for solidarity-building. The volume features a wide range of essays-on topics such as Ghanaian bead practices, testimonio as an embodied Latinx methodology, and protests against Chinese zero-COVID policies-that examine the stories, histories, and embodied experiences of activists organizing across transnational feminist networks. Through careful attention to everyday praxis, literacies, and survival strategies, the contributors showcase how people working across geopolitical scales confront local oppression with global structural origins and effects. Offering new methodologies and a reconfiguration of disciplinary boundaries, the volume pushes the field of TFR toward imagining and enacting critical solidarities across difference.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Mavis Boatemaa Beckson, Chen Chen, Yuanfang Dai, Rebecca Dingo, Lisa Emerson, Izzy Fox, Esteve Giraud, Tarez Samra Graban, Nancy Henaku, Kimberly Jenerette, Theresa A. Kulbaga, Elenore Long, Rachel Riedner, Ana Roncero-Bellido, Eileen E. Schell, Sanjay Sharma, Melissa Stone, Susan E. Thomas, and Jennifer Wingard.
Reviews / Votes
"Transnational Feminist Rhetorics is essential reading for scholars of contemporary rhetoric and feminist activism. The anthology investigates how transnational feminist rhetoric manifests in 21st century exigencies like climate change, public health crises, and colonizing capitalism. Each chapter carefully traces the way power and feminist rhetoric circulates in transnational patterns, while also being attentive to how local practices are linked to global phenomena. The chapters are nuanced, urgent, and deeply grounded in feminist rhetorical methodologies."-Rebecca S. Richards, author of Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics: From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
University Park
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-271-10218-4 (9780271102184)
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Persons
Belinda L. Walzer is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University.
Mais T. Al-Khateeb is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
Jennifer Nish is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Michigan Technological University.
Sweta Baniya is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Professional, and Technical Writing at Virginia Tech University.
Mais T. Al-Khateeb is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
Jennifer Nish is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Michigan Technological University.
Sweta Baniya is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Professional, and Technical Writing at Virginia Tech University.
Editor
Appalachian State University
Florida State University
Michigan Technological University
Virginia Tech University