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

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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
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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, ableism, and heteronormativity. Interrogating how these systems work to propagate masculine commitments to "science" and "hard evidence," Larson finds that US culture holds a general mistrust of testimony by women, stereotyping it as "emotional." But she also gives us hope for change, arguing that testimonies grounded in the bodily, material expression of violation are necessary for giving voice to victims of sexual violence and presenting, accurately, the scale 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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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271091436
ISBN 13 
9780271091433
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780271091440: What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture

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ISBN 10 :  0271091444 ISBN 13 :  9780271091440
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022
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