Rhetoric Re-View was established under the founding editorship of Theresa J. Enos and has been a feature of Rhetoric Review for over twenty-five years. The objective of Rhetoric Re-View is to offer review essays about prominent works that have made an impact on rhetoric. Reviewers evaluate the merits of established works, discussing their past and present contributions. The intent is to provide a long-term evaluation of significant research while also introducing important, established scholarship to those entering the field. This Rhetoric Re-View focuses on the claims expressed by Michael Ignatieff in The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World; specifically, Ignatieff’s belief that resolution of social problems involving different cultures can be attained by addressing such fundamentally shared core values as resiliency, empathy, and kindness. In addition to examining Ignatieff’s beliefs, this Rhetoric Re-View invites discussion on the important role that rhetoric plays in providing heuristics to attain agreement across cultures.

This project seeks to shed light on the beauty parlors of Afghanistan as rhetorical spaces and advocate for redefining and expanding the concept of parlor in Western rhetoric from a transnational feminist perspective. Unlike the conventional conception of beauty parlors as spaces primarily designed for beautification purposes, I propose interpreting beauty parlors in Afghanistan as arenas for conversation, confrontation, and resistance—shaped by the women in Afghanistan. Employing a transrhetorical practice—a transnational feminist strategy of reading and analyzing (Wang)—this paper argues that the Afghanistan beauty parlor serves as a transnational space for women to engage in rhetorical discourse, generate knowledge, and discuss philosophies relevant to their lived experiences. The aim of this article is to provide overdue recognition to Afghan women as transnational feminist rhetoricians who have redefined the concept of the parlor repositioning it as a dynamic space for transformative actions.

This article offers a conceptual framework for rhetorical ventriloquism, or the act of speaking through another. It focuses on contemporary digital contexts, where such acts proliferate, attuning to some of the new forms we find there. It delineates three dimensions of digital ventriloquist acts, arguing that these are key to understanding their public discursive work: the co-presence of the ventriloquist, the consent of the figure, and the act’s networkedness.

This essay shows the rhetorical and material process of regendering and forgetting that accompanied the downsizing and tearing down of U.S. progressive-era settlement homes founded by female maternalists who lost their ethos by mid-century in the U.S. The regendering of place by mid-century urban renewalist’s rhetoric, policy and culture enabled the elimination of neighborhoods. It made vulnerable the concept and material space of the neighborhood as a headquarters for community engagement, and denied the emotional attachment to homes that Progressive-Era maternalists embraced. The legacy of maternalist placemaking layered into Detroit’s contemporary social service agencies embodies the impact of this regendering.

Based on survey responses from eighty-five scholars on the job market from 2013 and 2019, this article examines mentoring for the job market in rhetoric and composition and technical communication. Respondents indicate needs for job market mentoring; more transparency about the job market itself; and more extensive, integrated support throughout graduate programs. The article concludes with actions that can be taken to improve the job market experience in rhetoric and composition and technical communication programs.