Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric

by Jack Selzer

Book Overview

What significance does the physical, material body still have in a world of virtual reality and genetic cloning? How do technology and postmodern rhetoric influence our understanding of the body? And how can our discussion of the body affect the way we handle crises in public policy--the politics of race and ethnicity; issues of "family values" that revolve around sexual and gender identities; the choices revolving around reproduction and genome...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299164748
• ISBN13: 9780299164744
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"