The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers by Vanhaitsma, Pamela

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions...
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Author: Pamela Vanhaitsma
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The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers by Vanhaitsma, Pamela

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers

$247.58

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers

$247.58
Author: Pamela Vanhaitsma
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions of women teachers in same-sex romantic friendships. Extending perspectives from ancient rhetoric to nineteenth-century progressivism, from Audre Lorde's Black lesbian feminist theory to its present-day uptakes, Pamela VanHaitsma conceives of the erotic as an interanimation of desires that, in being passionately shared, becomes imbued with the power to forge connection and foment change. VanHaitsma's theory of the erotic as rhetorical power emerges from both historiographic and imaginative engagements with more than twenty archives of romantic friendships between women: Sallie Holley and Caroline Putnam, Irene Leache and Anna Wood, Gertrude Buck and Laura Wylie, and Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown. VanHaitsma considers how even as the erotic in these romantic friendships fueled the women's rhetorical activities toward transformational ends--whether working toward the abolition of slavery, greater educational access, or voting rights--it also energized rhetorical activities that sometimes challenged but also reinforced troubling power dynamics. The Erotic as Rhetorical Power uncovers the erotic's significance as a conflicted site of power that is central to rhetorical theory and history as well as feminist and LGBTQ+ studies.



Author: Pamela Vanhaitsma
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 10/04/2024
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780814259245

About the Author
Pamela VanHaitsma is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education.


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