Introduction: (un)conventional means: recontextualizing everyday rhetorics of resistance
The pen as sword: the Townsend letter-writing campaigns and the case of Pearl Burkhalter
With pen and prayer: the life and ministry of Eliza P. Gurney
"The needle as the pen": recontextualizing the discourses of quilts and quiltmaking
Conclusion: "What is this thing you call a pen?": the courage of ordinary Americans.