The CFSHRC Development Team is pleased to share a preview of items available for bidding at our FemRhet Silent Auction fundraiser at Spelman next week! All proceeds from the auction will support future graduate student Feminisms and Rhetorics attendees through the Shirley Wilson Logan Diversity Scholarship Awards and the Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Travel Awards.
Donated items are listed below, along with suggested starting bids. To bid on items, simply head to the Silent Auction Table, located in the main lobby of Cosby Academic Center, outside of the entrance to the auditorium, and place your bids using the bidding sheets. Bidding closes on MONDAY, October 2 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. Winning bidders will be notified Monday evening and are expected to transport items home with them (except where noted below).
Many thanks to our donors: Shirley Wilson Logan, Kristi McDuffie, Jen Almjeld, Shirley Rose, Margaret Price, Julia Allen, and Jacqueline Jones Royster.
-Wendy Sharer, Immediate Past President and Development Team Chair
PS–If you have items you’d still like to donate and can bring with you to the conference, please reach out to me at sharerw@ecu.edu.
- Hand-knitted shawl in FiberOptic yarn (https://fiberopticyarns.com/collections/unified-gradients/products/java-jive). Materials: 80% merino wool, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon. Pattern: Stripe Study Shawl by Veera Välimäki. Size: approximately 70” along long edge.
Starting Bid: $50
Donated By: Margaret Price - Book, signed by author Jacqueline Jones Royster: Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900, U of Pittsburgh P, 2023.
Starting Bid:$10
Donated by: Jacqueline Jones Royster -
Items from the 2015 FemRhet conference at Arizona State University, including zippered bag, water bottle, and badge holder, as well as a copy of the printed conference program.
Starting Bid: $10
Donated by: Shirley Rose - Book: Women’s Ways of Making, edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Shirley K. Rose (Utah State UP, 2021), the edited collection of essays based on selected presentations from the 2015 Feminisms and Rhetorics conference.
Starting Bid: $10
Donated by: Shirley Rose - Book: Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied: Case Studies on Social Justice Movements, edited by Melissa Ames and Kristi McDuffie (Utah State UP, 2023).
Starting Bid: $10
Donated by: Kristi McDuffie - A gift bag for feminist book lovers from the Lady Jane shop in Harrisonburg, VA. Includes three vinyl stickers, an Ally button, a book lover magnet, a pair of To Kill a Mockingbird earrings, an original artwork by a Virgina artist, and a set of book cover postcards. Valued at $55.
Starting Bid: $20
Donated by: Jen Almjeld - A selection of women’s history postcards published by Helaine Victoria Press, now out of print &collectible. Approximately 20 cards.[Includes a promotional card for our forthcoming (September 15) book about Helaine VictoriaPress, available in both print and open access—free!—editions: Women Making History: TheRevolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press. Lever Press,2023. https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/ns0648657. For a book trailer, goto https://berksconference.org/big-berks/2023berks/new-book-videos/ and scroll down to WomenMaking History.]
Starting Bid: $5
Donated by: Julia Allen - Book Bundle #1
Starting Bid: $25
Donated by: Shirley Wilson Logan
Pick 7 books from among the following. Books will be shipped to winning bidder.- Practicing Citizenship: Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Maddux
- Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women’s Clubs, (1880-1920), Gere
- Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911), Boyd.
- The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the South and other important essays, papers, and letters, ed. by Lemert and Bhan
- Vote and Voice: Women’s Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930, Sharer
- ‘They Say’ Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race, Davidson
- We are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of 19th Century Black Women, Logan *Signed by author
- With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, ed. by Logan *Signed by author
- The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells, ed. by De-Costa-Willis
- Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, ed. by McCluskey & Smith
- Man Cannot Speak for Her, Volume I, A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric, Campbell
- A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Norton Critical ed.) Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. by Carol Poston.
- Evolutionary Rhetoric: Sex, Science and Free Love in Nineteenth-Century Feminism,
- Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South,
- Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911), Boyd.
- Book Bundle #2
Starting Bid: $25
Donated by: Shirley Wilson Logan
Pick 7 books from among the following. Books will be shipped to winning bidder.- We are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of 19th Century Black Women, Logan *Signed by author
- With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, ed. by Logan *Signed by author
- A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America, 3rd, Murphy
- On Rhetoric and Feminism 1973-2000. (Landmark Essays),ed. by Glenn & Lunsford
- Writing in the Devil’s Tongue: A History of English Composition in China, Xiaoye You
- A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966, Harris
- Cross-Language Relationships in Composition, Horner, Lu, & Matsuda
- Feminism and Composition Studies, Jarratt & Worsham
- Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing, Hager
- Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women’s Work, Enoch
- Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies, Royster & Kirsch
- Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope, Glenn
- Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness, Ratcliffe
- Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience, Susan Willis
- Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women, Royster
- Book Bundle #3
Starting Bid: $10
Donated by: Shirley Wilson Logan
Pick 3 books from among the following. Books will be shipped to winning bidder.- Black Feminist Thought, Collins
- Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Christian
- Talking Back: Thinking Feminist Thinking Black, hooks
- Feminist Rhetorical Theories, Foss, Foss & Griffin
- Feminists Theorize the Political, ed. by Butler & Scott
- Gender and the Politics of History, Revised ed., Scott
- The Fantasy of Feminist History, Scott
- Racial Formation in the United States, 2nd ed, Omi & Winant
- With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, ed. by Logan *Signed by author
- We are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of 19th Century Black Women, Logan *Signed by author
- Book Bundle #4
Starting Bid: $10
Donated by: Shirley Wilson LoganPick 3 books from among the following. Books will be shipped to winning bidder.
- The Afro-American Woman: Struggles & Images, Harley & Terborg-Penn
- Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
- Rhetoric of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, eds. Kennedy, Middleton, Ratcliffe
- We are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of 19th Century Black Women, Logan *Signed by author
- With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, ed. by Logan *Signed by author
- Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, Davis
- Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, hooks
- The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U,S, Terrain, ed, by Wahneema Lubiano
- The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. by James
- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa
