Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions

About the author

Ian Barnard (they/them/their) is professor of rhetoric and composition in the English department and director of LGBTQ studies at Chapman University. They are author of Upsetting Composition Commonplaces and Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory.

Summary

Makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary’sex panics' are undergirded by queerphobia, even when the panics in question don't appear to have much to do with queerness. Ian Barnard presents six case studies that treat a wide range of sex panic rhetorics to demonstrate his argument.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Barnard
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780817320560
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2056-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Alabama Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics