| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for "Alternative Rhetorics" | 1 |
| 1 | Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane Lead | 17 |
| 2 | Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor | 33 |
| 3 | "Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks": Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant Identity | 53 |
| 4 | The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming Communities | 77 |
| 5 | Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos | 93 |
| 6 | Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical Situation | 111 |
| 7 | @ home among the .coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web | 127 |
| 8 | Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937) | 149 |
| 9 | Visual Rhetorics of Classroom Practices: Negotiating 'Contact Zones' in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust | 167 |
| 10 | Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Human Agency and Social Change | 185 |
| 11 | Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's: A Japanese Nightingale and Sui Sin Far's "The Smuggling of Tie Co" | 203 |
| 12 | The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation | 219 |
| 13 | When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture | 235 |
| Contributors | 257 |
| Index | 261 |