Contents -- Introduction: Feminist Rhetorical Resilience-Possibilities and Impossibilities - Elizabeth A. Flynn, Patricia Sotirin, and Ann Brady -- 1. Vandana Shiva and the Rhetorics of Biodiversity: Engaging Difference and Transnational Feminist Solidarities in a Globalized World - Eileen E. Schell -- Response On the Politics of Writing Transnational Rhetoric: Possibilities and Pitfalls - Arabella Lyon and Banu Özel -- Reflection - Eileen E. Schell -- 2. The Traveling Fado - Kate Vieira -- Response Traveling Literacies - Janet Carey Eldred -- Reflection - Kate Vieira -- 3. Virginity and Hymen Reconstructions: Rural, Migrant Women as Agents of Literate Practices in Turkey - Iklim Goksel -- Response Problematizing Literacy - Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater -- Reflection - Iklim Goksel -- 4. Diversity and the Flexible Subject in the Language of Spousal/Partner Hiring Policies - Amy Koerber -- Response Expanding the Sites of Struggle over the "Flexible Subject" in Academe - Shirley K Rose -- Reflection - Amy Koerber -- 5. A Case Study in Resilience: Fabricating a Feminine Self in a Man-Made Era - Frances J. Ranney -- Response Philanthropy as Interpretation, Not Charity: Jane Addams's Civic Housekeeping as Another Response to the Progressive Era - Kate Ronald -- Reflection - Frances J. Ranney -- 6. From "Mothers of the Nation" to "Mothers of the Race": Nineteenth-Century Feminists and Eugenic Rhetoric - Wendy Hayden -- Response Strategic Collusion in the History of American Women Rhetors - Nan Johnson -- Reflection - Wendy Hayden -- 7. No One Wants to Go There: Resilience, Denial, and Possibilities for Queering the Writing Classroom - Jennifer DiGrazia and Lauren Rosenberg -- Response On Impossibility - Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander -- Reflection - Jennifer DiGrazia and Lauren Rosenberg -- About the Authors -- Index.