Part I. Foundations

1 The Womanization of Rhetoric

Sally Miller Gearhart

2 Proposal for a Feminist Rhetoric

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

3 Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

4 Beyond Traditional Conceptualizations of Rhetoric: Invitational Rhetoric and a Move toward Civility

Jennifer E. Bone, Cindy L. Griffin, and T. M. Linda Scholz

5 The Metatheoretical Foundations of Invitational Rhetoric: Axiological, Epistemological, and Ontological Explorations

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

Part II. Extensions

6 Fusing Horizons: Standpoint Hermeneutics and Invitational Rhetoric

Kathleen J. Ryan and Elizabeth J. Natalle

7 Telling the Story, Hearing the Story: Narrative Co-Construction and Crisis Research

Karen Taylor, Rita Durant, and David Boje

8 Planting Seeds of Change: Ella Baker's Radical Rhetoric

Marilyn DeLaure Bordwell

9 Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams's The Open Space of Democracy

Jill Swiencicki

10 Invention for the Invitational Rhetor: Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra"

Stephen M. Llano

11 Challenges to the Enactment of Invitational Rhetoric in the Age of Mobile Communication Technologies

Sonja K. Foss and Jeanine Warisse Turner

Part III. Applications

12 Love as a Strategy for Community and Social Justice Organizing: Invitational Rhetoric in Murfreesboro Loves

Roberta Chevrette and Joshua Hendricks

13 Practicing Invitational Rhetoric: East Central Ministries' Approach to Community Development

Sarah De Los Santos Upton

14 Discussions on Kneeling During the National Anthem: An Analysis of High School Football Players Employing Invitational Rhetoric

Kristen A. Hungerford

15 An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility, and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric

Bryant Keith Alexander and Michele Hammers

16 Understanding Affectively: Beyond the Hills as Cinematic Invitational Rhetoric

Alina Haliliuc

17 Participatory Graffiti as Invitational Rhetoric: The Case of O Machismo

Benjamin R. Bates

18 Invitational Rhetoric as a Springboard to Using Dialogue across the Curriculum

Patricia Hawk and Rachel Pokora

19 Creating an Invitational Classroom Environment: Lessons Lived and Learned

Donna Marie Nudd

20 Disrupting Disruption: Invitational Pedagogy as a Response to Student Resistance

A. Abby Knoblauch

21 An Invitation to Reason: The Process of Discovery Essay

Kathleen M. Hunzer

22 Considering the Alternative in Composition Pedagogy: Teaching Invitational Rhetoric with Lynda Barry's What It Is

Susan Kirtley

Part IV. Expanding the Invitation

23 The Theory of Invitational Rhetoric: Anticipating Future Scholarship

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

24 Compendium of Publications Related to Invitational Rhetoric

Sonja K. Foss, Cindy L. Griffin, and Andrew Gilmore