What It Feels Like : : Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture / / Stephanie R. Larson.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 3 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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