Sexual Rhetorics Methods, Identities, Publics [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction: Whats Sexual about Rhetoric, Whats Rhetorical about Sex? Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes  Section I: Sexed Methods  1. Promiscuous Approaches to Reorienting Rhetorical Research Heather Lee Branstetter  2. Intersecting Realities : Queer Assemblage as Rhetorical Methodology Jason Palmeri and Jonathan Rylander  3. Consciousness, Experience, Sexual Expression, and Judgment Jacqueline M. Martinez  4. Hard Core Rhetoric: Gender, Genre, and the Image in Neuroscience Jordynn Jack  5. Historicizing Sexual Rhetorics: Theorizing the Power to Read, the Power to Interpret, and the Power to Produce Meta G. Carstarphen  6. Milk Memorys Queer Rhetorical Futurity Charles E. Morris III  Section II: Troubling Identity  7. The Trope of the Closet David L. Wallace  8. Sex and the Crip Latina Ellen M. Gil-G?mez  9. Affect, Female Masculinity, and the Embodied Space Between: Two-Spirit Traces in Thirza Cuthands Experimental Film Lisa Tatonetti  10. The Unbearable Weight of Pedagogical Neutrality: Religion and LGBTQ Issues in the English Studies Classroom G PalCt