What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture

by Stephanie R Larson and Stephanie R. Larson

Book Overview

What 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271091444
• ISBN13: 9780271091440
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"