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.
Volume 28, Number 2: Winter 2026
About this Issue
PDFEditor: 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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