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Cultivating radical care and otherwise possibilities at the end of the world Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Noor Ghazal Aswad
This essay explores the existence of alternative worlds and radical rhetorics within the seemingly apocalyptic landscapes of borders, patriarchy, and environmental decay. Despite the prevailing cha...
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Articulating water conservation as colonization: revisiting the “public interest” in Theodore Roosevelt’s First Annual Message Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Warren Cook (he/him)
As policymakers attempt to cope with climate chaos, traditions of water injustice persist. Meanwhile, water problems and solutions in the U.S. arid region have long been discussed through the disco...
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How liberals lost the public: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and the critique of “traditional democratic theory” Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Ned O’Gorman (he/him)
Since the 1990s, rhetorical and communication studies have taken a strong turn toward multiplicity in publics scholarship. This turn has generally been understood as representing both a political a...
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Storytelling and worldmaking climate justice futures: Indigenous climate advocacy and transnational solidarity in UN climate conferences Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jessica Chaplain
This essay analyzes statements made by the International Indigenous People’s Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) at the United Nations Climate Change Conferences from 2017–2021 to amplify how Indigeno...
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Nuclear zelus: climate-oriented imaginaries among nuclear energy professionals Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Brian Cozen, Danielle Endres
This essay engages rhetorics of zeal, a common genre of contemporary discourse that merits further study. To focus on a representative example, we draw from multi-sited rhetorical fieldwork at nucl...
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Rhetorics of authentic hybridity and the racially mobile mestiça in “Girl from Rio” Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Raquel Moreira (she/her/ela/dela)
Brazilian pop star Anitta has achieved several indicators of a successful crossover to the U.S. music market. In this essay, I perform a close reading of the music video for “Girl from Rio” that pa...
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An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ahlam Muhtaseb (she/her)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Democratic melodrama and authoritarian melodrama Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Peter K. Bsumek (he/him), Jennifer Peeples (she/her), Jen Schneider (she/her)
This essay distinguishes democratic melodrama from authoritarian melodrama. We argue that the distinction between the two forms of melodrama is not merely located in the “eye of the beholder,” but ...
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Skepticism as ethos: David Hume’s response to the epistemological revolution Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Alexander W. Morales (he/him)
This article examines David Hume’s mitigated skepticism as enacted through an ethos that refashions moral philosophy’s public identity by appealing to the virtues of England’s transforming scientif...
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Affect and melodramatic resistance Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Norie R. Singer (she/her)
This essay uses the occasion of tribute to return to Steve Schwarze’s “Environmental Melodrama” and Gregory Desilet and Edward C. Appel’s later essay representing arguably the most important theore...
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On the censoring of Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Stacey K. Sowards
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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“Outstanding”: early Schwarze and the seeds of melodrama Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Marilyn DeLaure (she/her)
In this essay, I reflect on how ideas and commitments that defined Steve Schwarze’s early engagements with rhetorical studies shaped his later work on environmental melodrama. Steve and I met as te...
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Framing the activists: gender, race, and rhetorical disability in contested illnesses Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 V. Jo Hsu
For the past five decades, patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have struggled against the stereotype that their symptoms are “all in their heads.” With ME now appearing in roughly half the...
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Melodrama and empathic indignation Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Terence Paul Check (he/him)
This essay aligns Steve Schwarze’s notion of melodrama with Richard B. Miller’s call for “empathic indignation” and Louise Knops and Guillaume Petit’s notion of indignation as “affective transforma...
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Engaging with melodrama: a tribute to Steve Schwarze Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Carlos A. Tarin (he/him)
In this forum, several rhetorical scholars revisit Steve Schwarze’s 2006 essay, “Environmental Melodrama,” and the scholarly conversations his work inspired. The five essays featured in this forum ...
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Suffering and the edges of melodrama Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Shiv Ganesh (he/him/they)
Suffering occupies a central place vis-à-vis both melodrama and tragedy, and draws attention to their closeness, despite considerable efforts to distinguish between them. The multiple relations bet...
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The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Godfried Asante (he/him), Rico Self (he/him)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Alienizing logics and rhetoric at the end of the world Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Karma R. Chávez (she/her)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 A. Naomi Paik
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Narrative multiplicities and the politics of memory in The Borders of AIDS Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Jeff Bennett (he/him)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Beyond participation, toward disparticipation Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 (he/him) Matthew Salzano
Social movements require participatory dissent. Facing tensions between ideological purity and mass popularity, movements that desire to be politically effective and act in the interest of their pa...
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Public futurity: the rhetorics of sustainability and survival at the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Haley Schneider (she/they)
I propose the concept of public futurity as a framework for studying how communities renegotiate collective identity in times of crisis. Public futurity, which I define as the process by which grou...
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X, analyst Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Nathan H. Bedsole (he/his)
This essay situates X González’s oratory and activism for gun legislation within Jacques Lacan’s Discourse of the Analyst to argue for the affirmative role of analytic silence in a body politic rid...
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Expanding the framework of rhetorical circulation: an approach to online symbolic accretion through the rhizomorph Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Luis Miguel López-Londoño (he/his)
On October 18, 2019, members of the Colombian Army covered a highly visible mural with white paint. The mural depicted the Army’s active and retired generals who are allegedly responsible for extra...
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“This is America”: repurposing the white gaze through imitation Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Kesha James PhD (she/her)
Childish Gambino's music video “This is America” garnered national attention for its graphic portrayals of commodified Black pain. The music video critically exposes how white America visually cons...
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“The Rosa Parks of the trans bathroom debate”: Gavin Grimm and the racialization of transgender civil rights Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Erin J. Rand (she/her)
Gavin Grimm, a white transgender boy from Virginia, successfully sued his school board in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board and helped secure the right for trans and gender nonconforming stud...
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Toward reproductive justice rhetorics of care: state senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of Georgia’s heartbeat bill Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Savannah Greer Downing (she/her)
As we emerge into a post-Roe landscape spurred by state-level “heartbeat bills,” the stakes are high for rhetorical scholars to identify rhetorical topoi that have the capacity to intervene in legi...
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De-whitening consent amidst COVID-19 rhetoric Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Lamiyah Bahrainwala, Kate Lockwood Harris
This article exposes four white-supremacist tactics embedded within extant consent discourse that became increasingly mobilized through the COVID-19 pandemic. These tactics include discourses of mi...
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The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes? Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Noor Ghazal Aswad (she/her)
This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and those on the U.S. American left who mi...
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Global Rhetorical Traditions Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Scott R. Stroud
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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The evolution of mathematics: a rhetorical approach Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Crystal Broch Colombini
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Stripped: reading the erotic body Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Eliza Buckner
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Misogynoir and the public woman: analog and digital sexualization of women in public from the Civil War to the era of Kamala Harris Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Cecilia Cerja (she/her), Nicole D. Nave (she/her), Kelly L. Winfrey (she/her), Catherine Helen Palczewski (she/her), Leslie A. Hahner (she/her)
This essay identifies how the very conception of public woman is infused with the opprobrium hurled against a wanton woman – a sexualized figure who has lost claims to moral standing or social wort...
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What it Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Lauren L. Buisker (she/her/hers)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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“White man's road through Black man's home”: decolonial organizing in the metropole Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Kristy Maddux (she/her)
Between 1965 and 1973, a coalition of local Washington, D.C., activists, organized as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), prevented construction of two freeways that would ...
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A market for civil rights: whiteness as property, colorblindness, and the rhetoric of school choice Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Robert Asen (he/him)
ABSTRACT In this essay, I focus on the advocacy of Betsy DeVos as a prominent exemplar of a larger trend among U.S. pro-market education advocates asserting school choice as a contemporary stage of the nation’s long struggle for civil rights. I argue that as DeVos championed her cause, she repurposed this right from a civil right seeking justice and equality to a property right serving privilege and
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Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Romeo García (he/him/his)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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An uncanny architrope: impossible ghosts of empire at the Brontë Parsonage Museum Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Faber McAlister (they/them)
ABSTRACT This article offers the “architrope” as a means for apprehending rhetorical figures on a symbolic landscape (or “tropography”). I argue that ethical critique of public memory places requires more than reading visual representations and envisioning resistive viewer agencies. Inspired by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s declaration that it should not be possible to remember Victorian England’s women
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Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Anthony J. Irizarry (he/him/his)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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Whistleblower epideictic and the rejuvenation of the fourth estate Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Alan Chu (he/him)
ABSTRACT The historical partnership between whistleblowers and journalists has produced some of the most consequential news stories of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, this partnership has also experienced deep ruptures, most notably after the attacks on 9/11 that reordered the fourth estate’s (the press) approach to publishing stories on national intelligence and politically powerful figures
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Editorial Statement Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Stacey K. Sowards Editor, Toniesha L. Taylor Book Review Editor
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 1, 2023)
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The racial shock of abolitionist John Brown Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jay P. Childers (he/him), Lisa M. Corrigan (she/her)
ABSTRACT Abolitionist John Brown remains a cultural touchstone over 160 years after his execution for leading the Harpers Ferry Raid in October 1859, largely because that event and Brown’s behavior after it played a part in leading the nation into civil war. To understand that legacy and his role in sparking the Civil War, this article examines the discursive field that animated around Brown within
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A tour de force of Mexican rhetoricity and racialization Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Nina Maria Lozano
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 1, 2023)
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Racialized temporalities and rhetorical violence Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Lisa A. Flores
ABSTRACT Reflecting upon the words of Professors De Genova, Lozano, and Yam, this essay suggests that rhetorical scholars attend to the intersections between rhetorical violence and rhetorical temporalities. The varied projects that emerge in this forum together suggest that the racialized temporalities of violence rely upon temporalities of relentless and repetition. Together, relentlessness and repetition
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“Look, an Illegal Alien!”: the rhetorics of migrant “Illegality” and the racialization of Mexicanness Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Nicholas De Genova
ABSTRACT There is a sociopolitical and juridical regime that I have designated in terms of “the legal production of Mexican/migrant ‘illegality’,” which is never separable from a larger discursive formation of migrant “illegality,” which has always also been constitutive to the (re-)racialization of “Mexican”-ness in the United States. As a scholar of rhetoric, Lisa Flores amplifies and illuminates
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The whiteness of LBJ’s rhetoric: The appointment of Vicente T. Ximenes to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 José G. Izaguirre III
ABSTRACT This article presents a racial rhetorical critique of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidential rhetoric. Drawing from examinations of drafts, memos, and proclamations, I argue that LBJ in particular and the administration more generally utilized the appointment of Vicente T. Ximenes to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and his naming as the chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican
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Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right: Barack Obama and the War on Terror Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Matthew L. Parnell
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)
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Disidentifying from the “model minority”: How Indian American women rearticulate dominant racial rhetorics Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Nisha Shanmugaraj
ABSTRACT This study examines how second-generation Indian American women negotiate the “model minority” stereotype within their everyday rhetorical practices. Conducting a close reading of three extended case studies drawn from a larger qualitative interview study, I argue that though the model minority identity is perpetuated within families as an enactment of social fitness, felt contradictions with
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Adoxastic publics: Facebook and the loss of civic strangeness Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Jonathan S. Carter, Caddie Alford
ABSTRACT After being criticized for promoting misinformation in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook announced a “privacy-focused vision of social media.” Purportedly to decrease misinformation on users’ newsfeeds, these technical and rhetorical reforms moved users away from public-facing areas of the site, funneling them into private groups. Significantly, these reforms created groups organized
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The “Because Science” meme as virtual commonplace Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Lynda C. Olman
ABSTRACT Recent scholarship in virtual rhetorics has demonstrated that we must abandon static notions of place if we wish to account for the rhetorical effects of internet memes and other forms of virtual argumentation. However, displacing virtual rhetorics entirely effaces grounds for collective political action, particularly political resistance organized in virtual environments such as internet
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COVID-19 conspiracy rhetoric and other primal fantasies Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Casey Ryan Kelly
ABSTRACT Planet Lockdown, a documentary film, claims that the COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured by finance capitalists, Silicon Valley, and the pharmaceutical industry to microchip the population, consolidate global wealth, and enslave the population. Viral videos from the film have received tens of millions of engagements throughout social networks and media, constituting a major source of COVID-19
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I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Kiara Walker, Patricia Roberts-Miller
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)
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The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Michael Klajbor-Smith
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)
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Assimilation: An Alternative History Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Kat Williams
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)
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Small dick problems: Masculine entitlement as rhetorical strategy Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Allison L. Rowland
ABSTRACT This essay aims to sharpen the term entitlement for critical scholars by positing entitlement as a rhetorical strategy of hierarchy maintenance. The Reddit community r/SmallDickProblems, intended to provide support for men with small penises, furnishes an appropriate case study for threatened masculinity employing entitlement claims to maintain status. Abetted by the affordances of scale and
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“Better never means better for everyone”: White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Meredith Neville-Shepard
ABSTRACT This article builds on those who have critiqued Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale along racial lines and calls into question the esteemed status the show holds as a rhetorical resource for contemporary feminist activism. By drawing attention to the parasitical relationship that the archetype of the vulnerable (but resilient) white woman has to Black pain and death, I argue that the series further
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Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Wallace S. Golding
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)
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Homeland maternity: US security culture and the new reproductive regime Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)
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Rhetorics of reproductive justice and injustice in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Karrin Vasby Anderson
ABSTRACT In this forum, feminist rhetorical scholars address reproductive justice and injustice in the aftermath of Dobbs. Exhibiting diverse perspectives, concerns, and critical approaches, forum contributors consider topics such as the reinforcement and disruption of the gender binary in the discourse surrounding Dobbs; privacy and precarity in the homeland security state; the structures of power
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The Dobbs Leak and Reproductive Justice Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Emily Winderman, Atilla Hallsby
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)