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Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
University of Alabama Press
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible
Reclaiming Queer
Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
By Erin J. Rand
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
University of Alabama Press
Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity
Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
University of Alabama Press
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
Rhetoric and the Republic
Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America
University of Alabama Press
Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
University of Alabama Press
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus
Founding Fictions
University of Alabama Press
An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
University of Alabama Press
Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States
Hearing the Hurt
Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
University of Alabama Press
Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.