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With around 400 attendees, Feminisms and Rhetorics (FemRhets), a biennial conference sponsored by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC), practices an ethics of care-a tenet of feminist activism and scholarship, emerging from Carol Gilligan's research that values relationships, care, and responsiveness to community needs-that moves beyond a singular theme or structure to welcome a broad range of topics and provide mentoring and coalition-building opportunities. [...]FemRhets and the CFSHRC focus on disseminating knowledge but also foreground community-building, mentorship, and meaningful engagement for our attendees and the larger communities that support the conference. To be clear, as a smaller and biennial conference, FemRhets has always had to be nimble. Because the CFSHRC is a volunteer-based coalition and doesnt employ any staff, full-time or otherwise, we rely on members pitching in when they can to ensure the conference continues to be a welcoming and generative event. Most institutional site hosts receive little to no compensation or support from their home institutions to organize FemRhets. [...]lightening the workload of the host increases the likelihood that others will volunteer as hosts. [...]after each conference, the CPC archives the good work of organizers, allowing for continuing best practices moving forward.

\"God Save the Queen: Kairos and the Mercy Letters of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots\" analyzes the most consequential correspondence of these Renaissance women rulers-letters begging for mercy in the face of death. This analysis uncovers the similar rhetorical techniques of these documents composed in the heightened exigency of literal life and death situations, when these royal women turned to the community of which they were members to invoke pity and ask for mercy in their unique positions as inheritors of a male history in order to create strategies for the rhetoric of women rulers providing an historical exemplar of a kairotic rhetorical response.

An instructional note on foregrounding rhetoric across the curriculum to convey the rigor of professional and technical writing and assist instructors in claiming pedagogical ethos in a course that spans many disciplines.

An instructional note on foregrounding rhetoric across the curriculum to convey the rigor of professional and technical writing and assist instructors in claiming pedagogical ethos in a course that spans many disciplines.

Queen Mary I was crowned in 1553, becoming the first reigning queen of England. In order to provide a powerful image of female rule to her people, Queen Mary invented a rhetorical strategy that reflected her society's oppressive gender expectations of chaste silence so that she could become a powerfully voiced ruler. Her sister and successor, Queen Elizabeth I, later mirrored Mary's strategy. England's first female monarchs created an image of female rule by employing the figures of the spouse, the mother, and the maiden, embodying conventional roles for women in Tudor society, and reclaiming them as images of power.

Drawing on our experiences with qualitative research involving health and medical topics to which we have a personal connection, this dialogue asks scholars in RHM to consider key methodological issues in embodied research by exploring: the choice to take up inquiries with which we have personal connections; the ethics of representation within these projects; and determining if, how, when, and to what degree we should reveal these connections in the research write-ups themselves. Our conversation is characterized by a “heuristic orientation”—defined as intuitive, creative, and generative. We conclude by offering a heuristic tool for researchers to use as they make crucial decisions in embodied research in RHM.