ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |77 pages
Sexed Methods
chapter |7 pages
Historicizing Sexual Rhetorics
Theorizing the Power to Read, the Power to Interpret, and the Power to Produce
part |79 pages
Troubling Identity
chapter |13 pages
Affect, Female Masculinity, and the Embodied Space Between
Two-Spirit Traces in Thirza Cuthand's Experimental Film
chapter |13 pages
The Unbearable Weight of Pedagogical Neutrality
Religion and LGBTQ Issues in the English Studies Classroom
chapter |14 pages
“As Proud of Our Gayness, as We Are of Our Blackness”
Race-ing Sexual Rhetorics in the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays
part |85 pages
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