Transnational Feminist Rhetorics Remobilizing Solidarities

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, Estève 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.

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.