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Invitational rhetoric, created by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin in 1995, is an alternative rhetoric which is grounded in the feminist principles of equality, immanent value, and self-determination. Foss and Griffin proposed invitational rhetoric as an alternative rhetoric which offers an invitation of understanding. Invitational rhetoric seeks to create an environment that facilitates understanding, accords value, respect to others' perspectives, and contributes to the development of relationships of equality.Invitational rhetoric differs from traditional rhetoric because it does not have a patriarchal bias allows for only one main definition of rhetoric as persuasion. By defining rhetoric solely as persuasion, traditional rhetoric seems like more of a power struggle than the equal sharing of ideas that invitational rhetoric encompasses. The goal of invitational rhetoric is not to change another person’s opinion, but to foster an environment which allows for the understanding of complex ideals However there are some critiques of invitational rhetoric, Jennifer Emerling Bone, Cindy L. Griffin, & T. M. Linda Scholz write that invitational rhetoric is gender-specific, correlates persuasion to violence, grounded in essentialist principles, lacks agency, and that it is persuasion in disguise.