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What It Feels Like : Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture
Title
What It Feels Like : Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture / Stephanie R. Larson.
ISBN
9780271091693
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
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Summary
"Investigates contemporary and historical rhetorics of rape culture within institutional, legal, cultural, and medical discourses. Examines how discourses about rape rely on strategies of containment and deny the felt experiences of victims, ultimately stalling broader claims for justice in the United States"-- Provided by publisher
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Rhetoric and democratic deliberation ; volume 27
Contents
Introduction : bodies, feelings, and the rhetoric of rape culture
Sensing the nation at risk : sexual citizenship and the Meese Commission
The specter of patriarchy : imagining victims in bystander discourse
The proof is in the body : transcending rhetoric with rape kits
Disrupting silence : the law and visceral counterpublicity
Taking it all in : #MeToo, feminist megethos, and list making
Conclusion : "I was trapped in my body" : writing and living after rape.
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