Stripped - Maggie M. Werner

Stripped

Reading the Erotic Body
Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2020
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-08776-4 (ISBN)
155,80 inkl. MwSt
Explores the bodies, acts, and discourses that constitute embodied erotic rhetoric by foregrounding the material communication practices of performing bodies and proposing complementary frameworks and theories for analyzing them.
Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric.

Informed by her own ethnographic research conducted in strip clubs and theaters, Werner analyzes the movement, dress, and cosmetic choices of topless dancers and neo-burlesque performers. Drawing on critical methods of analysis, she develops approaches for interpreting embodied erotic rhetoric and the marginal cultural practices that construct women’s public erotic bodies. She follows these bodies out into the streets—into the protest spaces where sex workers and anti-rape activists challenge discourses about morality and victimhood and struggle to remake their own identities. Throughout, Werner showcases the voices of these performers and in the analyses shares her experiences as an audience member, interviewer, and paying customer. The result is a uniquely personal and erudite study that advances conversations about women’s agency and erotic performance, moving beyond the binary that views the erotic body as either oppressed or empowered.

Theoretically sophisticated and delightfully intimate, Stripped is an important contribution to the study of the rhetoric of the body and to rhetorical and performance studies more broadly.

Maggie M. Werner is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Embodied Criticism of the Erotic Body

1. Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric

2. “You’re Bound to Find Out She Don’t Love You”: Genre and the Erotic Body

3. The Pleasures of Process: Neo-burlesque’s Seductive Rhetoric

4. “I am a woman. This is my body”: Re-Articulating Identity in Sex-Work Activism

5. (Anti) Feminist Monsters: Alterity Rhetorics and the Signifying Body

Conclusion: Embodied Erotic Rhetoric’s Acceptance and Rejection



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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
Zusatzinfo 18 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 145 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-271-08776-5 / 0271087765
ISBN-13 978-0-271-08776-4 / 9780271087764
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