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A queer feminist history of rhetoric that looks at the erotic as a complicated site of rhetorical power, asking us to read the archives critically and differently.

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9780814215609

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"""The Erotic as Rhetorical Power brings Audre Lorde's concept to life through careful historiographic readings. Writing from her lived experience, VanHaitsma guides her readers to a nuanced understanding of how same-sex and other queer relationships sustain the lives and political expressions of women rhetoricians. Her voice is clear, direct, and organized as she bridges her own intimacies with those of the women who have inspired them to formulate a theory of the erotic that remains relevant and urgently needed today."" --Aimee Carrillo Rowe, author of Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound ""Important and engaging, The Erotic as Rhetorical Power demonstrates how to read settler colonial white women's contributions in ways that don't overlook their troublesome lapses. VanHaitsma's focus on same-sex intimate friendships provides fresh examples of how behind-the-scenes investments support and enable rhetorical productivity."" --Charlotte Hogg, author of From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community ""VanHaitsma is an expert on archival research methods--few contemporary scholars know how to find archives, let alone use them at the level she does. The Erotic as Rhetorical Power sets an example for rhetorical and feminist scholars on the power of archives."" --Cheryl Glenn, author of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope"

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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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