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

Libro 26 di 32: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Larson, Stephanie R.

 
9780271091433: What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture
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ISBN 10: 0271091436 ISBN 13: 9780271091433
Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2021

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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 strategies of containment, denying the felt experiences of victims and ultimately stalling broader claims for justice.

Investigating anti-pornography debates from the 1980s, Violence Against Women Act advocacy materials, sexual assault forensic kits, public performances, and the #MeToo movement, Larson reveals how our language privileges male perspectives and, more deeply, how it is shaped by systems of power'patriarchy, white supremacy, and heteronormativity as well as masculine commitments to 'science' or 'evidence.' In addition, Larson finds that the culture holds a general mistrust of testimony by women, stereotyping it as 'emotional.' But she also gives us hope for change, arguing that women's testimony'the bodily, material expression of violation'is needed to give voice to victims of sexual violence and to present, accurately, the facts of these crimes. Larson makes a case for visceral rhetorics, theorizing them as powerful forms of communication and persuasion.

Demonstrating the communicative power of bodily feeling, Larson challenges the long-held commitment to detached, distant, rationalized discourses of sexual harassment and rape. Timely and poignant, the book offers a much-needed corrective to our legal and political discourses.

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Stephanie R. Larson is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Editore
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0271091436
ISBN 13 
9780271091433
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
209
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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