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Naked politics : nudity, political action, and the rhetoric of the body / Brett Lunceford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lunceford, Brett.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Political aspects.
- Human body.
- Nudity--Political aspects.
- Nudity.
- Political activists.
- Political participation.
- Social action.
- activists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although public nudity as a form of political action has a history stretching back at least as far as Lady Godiva, Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, is one of the few books that examine political nudity from a rhetorical standpoint. Beginning with the notion that the body itself is communicative beyond the ability to speak, this work examines a variety of cases in which people employ the disrobed body for political ends.
- Contents:
- Introduction: naked in public (for a cause)
- Chained women and running nudes: PETA's body rhetoric
- Weaponizing the breast: lactivism and public breastfeeding
- Can you see me now, driver? World Naked Bike Ride
- Political display and the mediated body: exhibition and politics on Collegehumor.com
- Conclusion: the nude body in the public sphere.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2640-6
- 1-282-13405-1
- 9786613806635
- 0-7391-7702-8
- OCLC:
- 855502206
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