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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;
27 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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