"Inviting Understanding provides a comprehensive, coherent portrait of invitational rhetoric in a way that allows readers to understand the theory, to explore possible extensions, to see the practices of invitational rhetoric at work, and to access a comprehensive bibliography of works on the subject"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Part I. FOUNDATIONS
  • 1. The Womanization of Rhetoric
  • 2. Proposal for a Feminist Rhetoric
  • 3. Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric
  • 4. Beyond Traditional Conceptualizations of Rhetoric: Invitational Rhetoric and a Move toward Civility
  • 5. The Metatheoretical Foundations of Invitational Rhetoric: Axiological, Epistemological, and Ontological Explorations
• Part II. EXTENSIONS
  • 6. Fusing Horizons: Standpoint Hermeneutics and Invitational Rhetoric
  • 7. Telling the Story, Hearing the Story: Narrative Co-Construction and Crisis Research
  • 8. Planting Seeds of Change: Ella Baker’s Radical Rhetoric
  • 9. Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams’s The Open Space of Democracy
  • 10. Invention for the Invitational Rhetor: Allen Ginsberg’s “Wichita Vortex Sutra”
  • 11. Challenges to the Enactment of Invitational Rhetoric in the Age of Mobile Communication Technologies
• Part III. APPLICATIONS
  • 12. Love as a Strategy for Community and Social Justice Organizing: Invitational Rhetoric in Murfreesboro Loves
  • 13. Practicing Invitational Rhetoric: East Central Ministries’ Approach to Community Development
  • 14. Discussions on Kneeling During the National Anthem: An Analysis of High School Football Players Employing Invitational Rhetoric
  • 15. An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility, and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric
  • 16. Understanding Affectively: Beyond the Hills as Cinematic Invitational Rhetoric
  • 17. Participatory Graffiti as Invitational Rhetoric: The Case of O Machismo
  • 18. Invitational Rhetoric as a Springboard to Using Dialogue across the Curriculum
  • 19. Creating an Invitational Classroom Environment: Lessons Lived and Learned
  • 20. Disrupting Disruption: Invitational Pedagogy as a Response to Student Resistance
  • 21. An Invitation to Reason: The Process of Discovery Essay
  • 22. Considering the Alternative in Composition Pedagogy: Teaching Invitational Rhetoric with Lynda Barry’s What It Is
• Part IV. EXPANDING THE INVITATION
  • 23. The Theory of Invitational Rhetoric: Anticipating Future Scholarship
  • 24. Compendium of Publications Related to Invitational Rhetoric
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors