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What It Feels Like : Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture /

What It Feels Like interrogates an underexamined reason for our failure to abolish rape in the United States: the way we communicate about it. Using affective and feminist materialist approaches to rhetorical criticism, Stephanie Larson examines how discourses about rape and sexual assault rely on s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larson, Stephanie R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 27
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: The Problem with Origin Stories
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: bodies, feelings, and the rhetoric of rape culture
  • 1 Sensing the nation at risk: sexual citizenship and the meese commission
  • 2 The specter of patriarchy: imagining victims in bystander discourse
  • 3 The proof is in the body: transcending rhetoric with rape kits
  • 4 Disrupting silence: the law and visceral counterpublicity
  • 5 Taking it all in: #metoo, feminist megethos, and list making
  • Conclusion: "i was trapped in my body": writing and living after rape
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index