Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric

Peitho is the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Published quarterly, Peitho seeks to encourage, advance, and publish original research in the history of rhetoric and composition. We invite article-length submissions on a wide range of topics related to feminist theories and gendered practices. We also invite shorter submissions for “Recoveries and Reconsiderations,” an annual forum for sharing innovative perspectives on existing feminist work, as well an incubator for new feminist research projects.

Current Issue

Volume 28, Number 2: Winter 2026

About this Issue

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Editor: Cathryn Molloy, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Jamie White-Farnham
Associate Editor: Jennifer Nish
Editorial Assistants: Holli Flanagan and Taylor Hughes
Web Coordinator: Hannah Taylor
Cover Art: Photo by “Femmes à la Colombe” by Marie Laurencin (Musée du Luxembourg, Paris). Pastel painting depicts two androgynous figures wearing formal attire, standing closely. One holds a book with a small bird perched on it. The scene is set against a muted gray and pink background, creating a serene and intimate atmosphere

Introduction


Celebrating and Promoting Peitho-Level Generosity in Academe and
Beyond

Cathryn Molloy, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Jamie White-Farnham
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.01

Articles


Storiographies of #HealingJourney: Online Feminist Rhetorical
Practices of Healing through Content Creation and Care

Chandler Mordecai
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.02

Swallowing Voices: Mêtis and Its
Enactment

Kristen Hoggatt-Abader
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.03

#WhatIEatInADay *As A Fat Person Not on A Diet: Eating Online as
Feminist Performative Symbolic Resistance

Kelli R. Gill
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.04

In Order to “Say What We Say:” Archival Protocol that Attends to
Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Alanna Frost
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.05

Book Review


The Diasporic Cookbook as Chronotope, a Review of Kitchens of
Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home

Marcella Prokop
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.06

Cluster Conversation


Introduction: A Feminist Rhetorical Approach to
Visual Culture

Rachel E. Molko, Alexis Sabryn Walston, and Hannah Taylor
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.07

Envisioning Rhetoric: Sensation, Orientation,
Imagination

Kimberlyn R. Harrison
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.08

“Those pictures are peaches”: Gender Play in a Feminist
Visual Underground

Kristie S. Fleckenstein
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.09

Why We Blush: Metaphors Bound up in Cosmetic
Packaging

Jess Borsi and Taryn Seidler
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.10

Queerlesque: Anticolonial and Anti-Heteropatriarchal Love
and Abjection in (Rural) Queer Performance

Cheyenne Brown and Bibhushana Poudyal
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.11

Take it Seriously: Bimbo Feminism and the Racialized
Production of Erotic Capital on #BimboTok

Rency Luan and Anna Mcwebb
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.12

Patchworked Selves: Tattoos as Permanently
Becoming

Tina Le and Jackie Chicalese
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.13

It’s a Femininomenon: Chappell Roan, Queer Visual Culture, and
Participatory Feminist Rhetorics

Sharon J. Kirsch
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.14

Fattie at the Front of the Room: Fat Professors
as Embodied Visual Feminist Praxis

Katie Manthey and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.15

Claws, Paws, and Menopause: Feline Metaphors and the Performance
of Aging

Freddie (Fiona) Harris Ramsby
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.16

Contemporary Mural Art, Personhood, and Utopic Visions of
Reproductive Justice

Jill Swiencicki
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.17

Reproductive Chronic Illnesses Social Media as a Guide for
Care

Jessie Reynolds-Clay
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.18

Materiality of Memory: Firelei Báez & A Path Toward Feminist
Visual Rhetorics

angela muir
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.19

“Seeing Red”: Subversion, Appropriation, and the Feminist Gaze in
Barbara Kruger’s Art”

Rachel E. Molko
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.20

“The Modern Girl Wants to Have it All”?: Shifting Megarhetorics
of Empowerment in An African City

Nancy Henaku
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.21

The New Woman and Visual Resistance: A Feminist Visual Rhetorical
Analysis of Hard Labor

Martha Sue Karnes
DOI: 10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.22

 

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