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Feminist Technical Communication introduces readers to technical communication methodology, demonstrating how rhetorical feminist approaches are vital to the future of technical communication. Using an intersectional and transcultural approach, Erin Clark fuses the well-documented surge of work in feminist technical communication throughout the 1990s with the larger social justice turn in the discipline.
 
The first book to situate feminisms and technical communication in relationship as the focal point, Feminist Technical Communication traces the thread of feminisms through technical communication’s connection to social justice studies. Clark theorizes “slow crisis,” a concept made readable to technical communicators by apparent feminisms that can help technical communicators readily recognize and address social justice problems. Clark then applies this framework to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, an extended crisis that has been publicly framed by a traditional view of efficiency that privileges economic impact. Through rich description of apparent feminist information-gathering techniques and a layered analysis this study offers application far beyond this single disaster, making available new crisis-response possibilities that consider the economy without eliding ecological and human health concerns.
 
Feminist Technical Communication offers a methodological approach to the systematic interrogation of power structures that operate on hidden misogynies. This book is useful to technical communicators, scholars of technical communication and rhetoric, and readers interested in gender studies and public health and is an ideal text for graduate-level seminars focused on feminisms, social justice, and cultural studies.
 

Interrogating Gendered Pathologies points out and critiques unjust patterns of pathology. Erin A. Frost and Michelle F. Eble assemble a transdisciplinary approach from/to technologies, rhetorics, philosophies, epistemologies, and biomedical data to consider the effects of biomedicine’s gendered norms on people’s lives. Using a range of complementary and intersectional theoretical approaches, contributors ask questions about rhetoric’s role in healthcare and how it differs depending on patient embodiment and the ways nonnormative bodies are pathologized.
 
These chapters engage common narratives about the ways in which gender in healthcare is secondary and highlights the stories of people who have battled to prioritize their own bodies through extraordinary difficulties. Employing a multiplicity of voices, the book represents a number of different perspectives on what it might look like to return health and medical data to embodied experience, to consider the effects of gendered and intersectional biomedical norms on lived realities, and to subvert the power of institutions in ways that move us toward biomedical justice.
 
This collection contributes to the burgeoning field of health and medical rhetorics by rhetorically and theoretically intervening in what are often seen as objective and neutral decisions related to the body and to scientific and medical data about bodies. Interrogating Gendered Pathologies will be of interest to feminist scholars in the field of rhetoric and writing studies, specifically those in the rhetorics of health and medicine, as well as scholars of technical communication, feminist studies, gender studies, technoscience studies, and bioethics.
 
Contributors: Leslie Anglesey, Mary Assad, Beth Boser, Lillian Campbell, Marleah Dean, Lori Beth De Hertogh, Leandra Hernandez, Elizabeth Horn-Walker, Caitlin Leach, Jordan Liz, Miriam Mara, Cathryn Molloy, Kerri Morris, Maria Novotny, Sage Perdue, Colleen Reilly
 

Practicing Digital Activisms reframes digital activism as embodied, situated work that extends across classrooms, communities, institutions, streets, and ecosystems. It develops frameworks for studying and practicing activism in an era shaped by social media, datafication, and artificial intelligence. At the heart of the collection is a rethinking of digital activism for the twenty-first century that traces activism through networks of people, platforms, infrastructures, and material practices.

Bringing together scholars in rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication, and community engagement, contributors show how activism now unfolds across interconnected media ecologies, through affective and material infrastructures, and at multiple tempos ranging from viral moments to the quieter practices of organizing, care, and persistence. Through case studies of food activism, environmental advocacy, reproductive health, social media movements, and emerging data practices, contributors demonstrate digital activism as a sustained practice of coalition building, circulation, documentation, and persistence. The chapters provide theoretical tools for making infrastructures visible, negotiating ethical responsibility, and designing interventions responsive to local needs and broader struggles for justice.

Attending to the risks that shape contemporary digital life—including surveillance, commodification, algorithmic bias, harassment, platform control, and unequal access—the collection offers language, methods, and examples for understanding how communities build power, sustain movements, and imagine just futures through digital practice. For scholars, teachers, students, organizers, and readers interested in digital rhetoric and social change, Practicing Digital Activisms invites attention to digital participation as a vital site where collective action is imagined, contested, and practiced.