Section One: Identities and Body Politics
Poetry in Motions (and Cocoa Butter): Discerning Michelle Obama's Body as a Site of Rhetorical Dissent and Performative Black Womanhood / Geraud Blanks
Ain't She a First Lady?: Michelle Obama, Black Women's Narratives, and the Rhetoric of Identification / Sharoni Denise Little
Finding the First Lady: The Construction and Negotiation of Michelle Obama's Identity / Leticia D. Williams
Negotiated Respectability, the Looking Glass Self and Mrs. Michelle Obama / Ernestine A. W. Duncan and Khadijah O. Miller
Michelle Obama's Impact on Contemporary Feminisms: A Critical Examination of the Intersectional Raced and Gendered Discourse of the First Lady / Diane Forbes Berthoud
Reflection, Race, and Representation: Analyzing the Magic of Michelle Obama Effect with and for our Black Daughters / Shawntay Stocks, Sherella Cupid and Tahira Mahdi
Section Two: Pursuits and Politics
"When They Go Low, We Go High": Michelle Obama's Feminine Style Approach to Sexual Assault During the 2016 Election / James M. Schnoebelen and Sarah C. Dweik
Visuality and the Pathetic First Lady / Stephanie Wideman
United We Stand: Michelle Obama's Influence on Reframing the Narrative, Imagery and Discourse of Veterans and Military Families / Stormy P. Trotter
#thanksMichelleObama: The Fight over Healthy School Lunches and Advocacy Work by the First Lady / Elizabeth Freund Malnati
#TurnipForWhat: The On Fleek Persona of Michelle Obama / Erin F. Doss.