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Stripped : reading the erotic body / Maggie M. Werner.
LIBRA HQ460 .W47 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werner, Maggie M., 1974- author.
- Series:
- RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
- The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Erotic aspects.
- Human body.
- Burlesque (Theater).
- Stripteasers.
- Rhetorical criticism.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271087764
- 0271087765
- 9780271087771
- 0271087773
- OCLC:
- 1141138109
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