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Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender

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Lives, Letters, and Quilts

Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance

University of Alabama Press

How writers, activists, and artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials

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Rhetorical Machines

Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics

Edited by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu; Introduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu
University of Alabama Press

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice

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Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

University of Alabama Press

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment

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The Mark of Criminality

Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop

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Citizen Science in the Digital Age

Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement

University of Alabama Press

A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection

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Friendship Fictions

The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary

University of Alabama Press

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual’s participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.

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Desiring the Bomb

Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age

University of Alabama Press

A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age

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Field Rhetoric

Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion

University of Alabama Press

A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork

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Lacan in Public

Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.

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