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082 0 4 _a362.883920973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLarson, Stephanie R.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWhat It Feels Like :
_bVisceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture /
_cStephanie R. Larson.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.) :
_b3 illustrations
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490 0 _aRhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;
_v27
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface: The Problem with Origin Stories --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: bodies, feelings, and the rhetoric of rape culture --
_t1 Sensing the nation at risk: sexual citizenship and the meese commission --
_t2 The specter of patriarchy: imagining victims in bystander discourse --
_t3 The proof is in the body: transcending rhetoric with rape kits --
_t4 Disrupting silence: the law and visceral counterpublicity --
_t5 Taking it all in: #metoo, feminist megethos, and list making --
_tConclusion: “i was trapped in my body”: writing and living after rape --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhat 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aRape culture
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRhetoric
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
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653 _aFeminism.
653 _abody politics.
653 _afeeling.
653 _arhetorical theory.
653 _asexual violence.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780271091709?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271091709
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