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The article focuses on research into wooden astronomical tables found on Egyptian coffins. It states in the 1960s Egyptologist Richard A. Parker and science historian Otto Neugebauer proposed that 13 tables that had been recovered traced the order in which stars and small star clusters rose over the eastern horizon for each week throughout the year. It mentions associate professor Sarah Symons used planetarium software simulating ancient stars to determine there were two groups of tablets.

This essay offers a chronology of over sixty works that have directly innovated, solidified, or critiqued feminist research methodologies in the study of historic rhetoric and composition over the past four decades. The ongoing conversation about feminist research in rhetoric and composition continues to raise questions about method, methodology, and canonicity just as the research itself continues to recover and re-vision a wealth of historic work. This essay, in its broad review, presents readers a panoramic snapshot of the major trends and methodological debates that have shaped feminist historic scholarship in our field.