Rhetorical Bodies

Toward a Material Rhetoric

By: Jack Selzer, Herbert M. Howe (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 July 1959

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What significance does the physical, material body still have in a world of virtual reality and genetic cloning? How do technology and postmodern rhetoric influence our understanding of the body? And how can our discussion of the body affect the way we handle crises in public policy-the politics of race and ethnicity; issues of "family values" that revolve around sexual and gender identities; the choices revolving around reproduction and genome projects, and the spread of disease?

Leading scholars in rhetoric and communication, as well as literary and cultural studies, address some of the most important topics currently being discussed in the human sciences. The essays collected here suggest the wide range of public arenas in which rhetoric is operative-from abortion clinics and the World Wide Web to the media's depiction of illiteracy and the Donner Party. These studies demonstrate how the discourse of AIDS prevention or Demi Moore's "beautiful pregnancy" call to mind the physical nature of being human and the ways in which language and other symbols reflect and create the physical world.

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"In this day and age where the focus has shifted from our physical selves to 'virtual identities, ' 'cyberspace, ' and the Cartesian world of the brain and the computer, it seems important and urgent to remind ourselves that we are, in the end, creatures of the body."--Laura J. Gurak, author of Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction

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Preface
Habeas Corpus: An Introduction	p. 3
Contemporary U.S. Memorial Sites as Exemplars of Rhetoric's Materiality	p. 16
Legible Bodies: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Rhetoric of Dissection	p. 58
Conspicuous Consumption: Cannibal Bodies and the Rhetoric of the American West	p. 75
Material of Desire: Bodily Rhetoric in Working Women's Poetry at the Bryn Mawr Summer School, 1921-1938	p. 98
Disintegrating Bodies of Knowledge: Historical Material and Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric	p. 120
Figuring Illiteracy: Rustic Bodies and Unlettered Minds in Rural America	p. 143
Material Literacy and Visual Design	p. 171
Autobiography after Prozac	p. 202
Materializing Public and Private: The Spatialization of Conceptual Categories in Discourses of Abortion	p. 218
Rhetoric and Technoscience: The Case of Confide	p. 239
Beard	p. 275
Reading Maternity Materially: The Case of Demi Moore	p. 297
Dick Morris, Ideology, and Regulating the Flow of Rhetorical Resources	p. 314
The Materiality of Coding: Rhetoric, Genetics, and the Matter of Life	p. 326
Afterword: The Material of Rhetoric	p. 357
Selected Bibliography on Material Rhetoric	p. 367
Contributors	p. 379
Index	p. 383
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