In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women's participation helped the church to become the nation's largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their official roles diminished during that time. In Beyond the Pulpit, Lisa Shaver examines Methodist periodicals as a rhetorical space to which women turned to find, and make, self-meaning. In...

In Reforming Women, Lisa Shaver locates the emergence of a distinct women’s rhetoric and feminist consciousness in the American Female Moral Reform Society. Established in 1834, the society took aim at prostitution, brothels, and the lascivious behavior increasingly visible in America’s industrializing cities. In particular, female moral reformers contested the double standard that overlooked promiscuous behavior in men while harshly condemning women for the same offense. Their ar...

Travel with quirky, irreverent, Lisa Marie to Salzburg, Austria where you can experience Austrian culture vicariously as you follow Lisa Marie to classes, pubs, disco 7, and more! Find out what life was like in Russia while it was still behind the Iron Curtain and visit Budapest, Hungary in the middle of the arctic freeze. You will enjoy separating fact from fiction in this based on the true account of the author's semester abroad!

Chair Squeaker is a collection of short stories about people who don't quite fit in with society at large. The characters are sometimes quirky while others appear to be more conventional types, but all are chair squeakers in their own special way.StoriesChair Squeaker-A hopeful story about a young man named Bickford and his courageous attempt to fit in.The Night Shift-A suspenseful, eerie story about the relationship between fledging security officer, Karen Angst, an...

Disruptive pedagogies for archival researchIn a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many form...

Mentoring While White: Culturally Responsive Practices for Sustaining the Lives of Black College Students provides a provocative and illuminating account of the mentoring experiences of Black college and university students based on their racialized and marginalized identities. Bettie Ray Butler, Abiola Farinde-Wu, and Melissa Winchell bring together a diverse group of well-respected leading and emerging scholars to present new and compelling arguments pointing to what white facul...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to retire for free in a rich foreign country? What if you could have all the amenities of home without have to pay for them? Follow Lilah and Laylah Larceny to Scandinavia and find out how!

This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also...

Follow me on my trip abroad to Salzburg, Austria where I am learning German by rote at restaurants, cafes, and bars and taking an intensive German course at the SSI Institute for foreigners. We will also travel to Russia in 1984 when it was still behind the Iron Curtain and Budapest Hungary for some more misguided adventures.You will enjoy separating fact from fiction in this based on the true account of my adventures in Austria and Eastern Europe.

It's Dyngus Day in Buffalo, New York where identical twin sisters Lilah and Laylah Larceny (pronounced LAR -SEN-EE) are celebrating their favorite ethnic festival as they are getting ready to retire from their 30-year careers as makeover queens. The twins are similar, with some differences: One twin believes in ghosts and the other in Aliens from outer space. Unbeknownst to Lilah, her newly adopted pet cat, whom she calls Dyngus is a bit of both. One day as Lilah is watching a YouTube vide...