Volume 20, Issue 1: Fall/Winter 2017

About this Issue

Editor: Jen Wingard, University of Houston
Associate Editor: Wendy Sharer, East Carolina University
Editorial Assistant: Rachelle A.C. Joplin, University of Houston
Cover Art: Jen Wingard, University of Houston

Introduction

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Editor’s Introduction
Jen Wingard

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Tributes to Jan Swearingen (1948-2017)
Cheryl Glenn, Hui Wu, Jennifer Bay, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Rachelle A.C. Joplin, Cynthia Haynes, LuMing Mao, Susan C. Jarratt, Kathleen Ethel Welch

Articles

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Inviting Infamy, Reframing Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Anti-Polygamy Lecturer, Ann Eliza Young, and the Dynamics of Incremental Persuasion
J.P. Hanly
Tags: Inviting Infamy, Reframing Freedom

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Reading Children’s Book Editor Ursula Nordstrom: Archives of Literacy Sponsorship, Workplace Persuasion, and Queer Networks
Kelly Blewett
Tags: corporate archives, historiography, lesbian, literacy sponsorship, queer, strategic contemplation, workplace writing

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Scapegoats and Aliens: Institutionalized Shame in Divorce Court and Mandatory Parenting Classes
Jennifer Young
Tags: Demagoguery, Discourse Analysis, Divorce, Parenting, Public Policy, rhetoric, Scapegoating, shame

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Mixed Messages: Slut Shaming in Mean Girls and Easy A
Laurie McMillan
Tags: Easy A, genre, Mean Girls, slut, slut shaming, teen movie

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Anticipating the Unknown: Postpedagogy and Accessibility
Stephanie Phillips and Dr. Mark Leahy
Tags: accessibility, feminist disability studies, pedagogy, postpedagogy, safe spaces, trigger warnings

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Motherhood, Time, and Wendy Davis’s Ethos
Timothy Ballingall
Tags: abortion, ethos, motherhood, reproductive rights, time, Wendy Davis

Book Reviews

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Rev. of Shades of Sulh: The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation by Rasha Diab
Chanon Adsanatham

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Rev. of Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Sarah Hallenbeck
April Cobos

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Rev. of Praising Girls: The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930 by Henrietta Rix Wood
Sara Austin

Digital Insert

Building Sustainable, Capable Lives or Tilting at Windmills – A Remediation
Jen England, Charlotte Hogg, Christine Martorana, Lisa Masterangelo, Jeanne Marie Rose, Kathleen J. Ryan, Shelley Hawthorne Smith, and Christy Wenger