Stripped : reading the erotic body /

Explores the bodies, acts and discourses that constitute embodied erotic rhetoric by foregrounding the material communication practices of performing bodies and proposing complementary frameworks and theories for analyzing them.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werner, Maggie M., 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Series:RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : embodied criticism of the erotic body
  • Deploying delivery as critical method : neo-burlesque's embodied rhetoric
  • "You're bound to find out she don't love you" : genre and the erotic body
  • The pleasures of process : neo-burlesque's seductive rhetoric
  • "I am a woman. This is my body" : rearticulating identity in sex-work activism
  • (Anti-)feminist monsters : alterity rhetorics and the signifying body
  • Conclusion : embodied erotic rhetoric's acceptance and rejection.