Books in the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series

This volume outlines pedagogical projects to the (re)production of public memory as a way to advance students' writing and rhetorical repertoire.

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy, analyzing rhetoric¿s role in food representations, and its symbolic and material effects.

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.

This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspectives, an effort that brings a discipline too long defined by that fallacy of division, human or nonhuman, into conversation with animal studies, biosemiotics, and environmental communication, as well as other recent intellectual and activist movements for reconceptualizing relationships and interactions in the biosphere.

The continued importance of Christian rhetorics in political, social, pedagogical, and civic affairs suggests that such rhetorics are essential to the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century. Mapping Christian Rhetorics argues that understanding religious rhetorics helps rhetoricians understand the nature of rhetoric itself¿its boundaries, its characteristics, its functionings.

This volume outlines pedagogical projects to the (re)production of public memory as a way to advance students¿ writing and rhetorical repertoire.