Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores the intersection of rhetoric and sexuality through the varieties of methods available in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, including case studies, theoretical questioning, ethnographies, or close (and distant) readings of "texts" that help us think through the rhetorical force of sexuality and the sexual force of rhetoric.
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"Sexual Rhetorics moves beyond an engagement with the gendered and sexual subject. The sexed rhetorics animated in this collection will move readers to confront and consider the pervasiveness of sex/uality in structuring social life and discourses in public/s sphere/s. In bringing together a range of sexed methods from archival research to textual and rhetorical analyses to ethnographic-style inquiry and case studies Alexander and Rhodes effectively argue that to fully understand rhetorical action in contemporary (counter)publics, we must also know and understand the primacy of sexual rhetorics." -- Adela C. Licona, University of Arizona, USA
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| Introduction: What's Sexual about Rhetoric, What's Rhetorical about Sex? |
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1 Promiscuous Approaches to Reorienting Rhetorical Research |
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2 "Intersecting Realities": Queer Assemblage as Rhetorical Methodology |
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3 Consciousness, Experience, Sexual Expression, and Judgment |
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4 Hard-Core Rhetoric: Gender, Genre, and the Image in Neuroscience |
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5 Historicizing Sexual Rhetorics: Theorizing the Power to Read, the Power to Interpret, and the Power to Produce |
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6 Milk Memory's Queer Rhetorical Futurity |
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PART II Troubling Identity |
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7 The Trope of the Closet |
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8 Sex and the Crip Latina |
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9 Affect, Female Masculinity, and the Embodied Space Between: Two-Spirit Traces in Thirza Cuthand's Experimental Film |
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10 The Unbearable Weight of Pedagogical Neutrality: Religion and LGBTQ Issues in the English Studies Classroom |
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11 The Story of Fox Girl: Writing Queer about/in Imaginary Spaces |
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12 "As Proud of Our Gayness, as We Are of Our Blackness": Race-ing Sexual Rhetorics in the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays |
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PART III (Counter) Publics |
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13 "Gay Boys Kill Themselves": The Queer Figuration of the Suicidal Gay Teen |
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14 Consorting with the Enemy?: Women's Liberation Rhetoric about Sexuality |
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15 Sex Trafficking Rhetorics/Queer Refusal |
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16 Sexual Counterpublics, Disciplinary Rhetorics, and Truvada |
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17 Presidential Masculinity: George W. Bush's Rhetorical Conquest |
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18 Liberal Humanist "Rights" Discourse and Sexual Citizenship |
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| List of Contributors |
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Jonathan Alexander is Professor of English, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA where he was the founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication.
Jacqueline Rhodes is Professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
