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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Editorial Changes -- Introduction. Gathering Women's Rhetorics for the Twenty-First Century -- I. Rhetorics of Civic Engagement -- Hillary Rodham Clinton-Remarks at the Democratic National Convention -- Shirin Ebadi-"The Women Who Dared to Rise Up": Excerpt from Until We Are Free -- Jeannette Urquilla-"El Salvador's Shameful Treatment of Women Who Miscarry" -- Nancy Pelosi-Pelosi Floor Speech on Republican Amendments Defunding the Affordable Care Act -- Sonia Sotomayor-Excerpt from Utah v. Strieff Dissent -- Maxine Waters-Speech at Los Angeles Immigration Rally -- Michelle Obama-Remarks by the First Lady at Hillary for America Campaign Event in Manchester, New Hampshire -- Jennifer Bailey-"Strange Fruit of a Different Name" -- Emma González-Excerpt from Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement -- Sharon Brous-"Israel in Trying Times: Unity Not Uniformity" -- Lezley McSpadden-"Michael Brown's Mom, on Alton Sterling and Philando Castile" -- Cathy de la Cruz, Caroline Madden, and Keegan Osinski-Mansplaining Tweets -- Nadia Bolz-Weber-"We're in the Midst of an Apocalypse: And That's a Good Thing" -- Lindy West-"Ask Not for Whom the Bell Trolls -- It Trolls for Thee": Excerpt from This American Life Podcast -- II. Rhetorics of Feminisms -- Kimberlé Crenshaw-"Why Intersectionality Can't Wait" -- Robin M. Boylorn-"Mama's Feminism": Excerpt from The Crunk Feminist Collection -- Barbara Sostaita-"This Women's History Month, I Refuse to Celebrate Your Feminism" -- Patricia Valoy-"Transnational Feminism: Why Feminist Activism Needs to Think Globally" -- Amy Alexander-"Today's Feminism: Too Much Marketing, Not Enough Reality" -- Emi Koyama-Excerpts from "The Transfeminist Manifesto" -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-Wellesley College 2015 Commencement Address. "In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's State Capitol and removed the Confederate flag, and the following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the State Capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first century women rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle's ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the "available means of persuasion." Women's persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies, and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress. Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-first Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts, including well-known figures like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that you may converse with them, extend them, and build rhetorics of your own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have gathered timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century"--
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