Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home

Melanie Loehwing

Homeless assistance has frequently adhered to the “three hots and a cot” model, which prioritizes immediate material needs but may fail to address the political and social exclusion of people experiencing homelessness. In this study, Loehwing reconsiders typical characterizations of homelessness, citizenship, and democratic community through unconventional approaches to homeless advocacy and assistance.

How to Belong

Women’s Agency in a Transnational World

Belinda Stillion Southard

“Written with elegant clarity, Stillion Southard’s book boldly theorizes collective identity outside the bounds of nationality and citizenship. The book offers three case studies that inspire political imagination and hope. The Peace Women, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Michelle Bachelet teach lessons we all should learn.”
—Catherine Helen Palczewski, coauthor of Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism

African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

Carole Lynn Stewart

“This book speaks softly and carries a big wallop. Through precise readings and meticulous historical research, Stewart demonstrates that there was a common transnational epistemology uniting black reformers. Highly recommended.”
—Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming Religion

Being at Genetic Risk

Toward a Rhetoric of Care

Kelly Pender

“This book is groundbreaking, not only for scholars interested in women’s health, or health or science studies more generally, but also for rhetorical scholars and (post)humanists.”
—Celeste M. Condit, author of Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11

Hagia Sophia

Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium

Bissera V. Pentcheva

Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t

How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

Sharon E. Jarvis, and Soo-Hye Han

Style ranked #6 out of the Top 20 Journals in Google Scholar’s “Literature & Writing” Category!

Mining for Ancient Copper

Essays in Memory of Beno Rothenberg

Edited by Erez Ben-Yosef

The story of copper and the role it has played since the dawn of metallurgy more than 7,000 years ago is a remarkable, at times breathtaking, often inspiring tale of evolution and innovation; it imparts some of the greatest technological achievements of man and his persistent striving towards. . . . (more)

The Unfavored

Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel

Following the work of scholars who have attempted to rehabilitate the notion of “chosenness” in the Hebrew Bible and others who have focused more narrowly on the fate of non-Israelites in the Old Testament, The Unfavored centers on the role of two “unfavored” characters within Israel—Judah and. . . . (more)