Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Making the World a Better Place

African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900

By Jacqueline Jones Royster

Centers Black Women’s Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation’s Founding through the Civil War and Beyond

Unorganized Women

Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937

By Jane Greer

A Detailed Study of the Rhetorical Labor of Low- and No-Wage Women Workers Unaffiliated with Traditional Labor Unions

Rhet Ops

Rhetoric and Information Warfare

Edited By Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson

Weaponized Digital Rhetorics

Kairotic Inspiration

Imagining the Future in the Sixth Extinction

By Sarah Allen

Offering a New, Ecological Theory of Inspiration That Shifts the Concept toward Deep, Transformative Connections

Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry

Edited By Amy Dayton, Jennie Vaughn

A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Ethical, Methodological, and Representational Questions in Feminist Rhetorical Research

Rhetorical Crossover

The Black Presence in White Culture

By Cedric Burrows

An Examination of the Ways African American Rhetoric Becomes Whitened When It Crosses Over into White Audiences

Persuasive Acts

Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Shari J. Stenberg, Charlotte Hogg

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, ...