Reclaiming Queer - Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s

About the author

Erin J. Rand is an associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies and affiliated with LGBT Studies at Syracuse University. Her work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, the Western Journal of Communication, and Women's Studies in Communication.

Summary

Offers an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s. Erin Rand examines both queer activist and academic practices during this period, taking as her primary object the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism.

Product details

• Authors: Erin J Rand, Erin J. Rand
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9780817361631
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6163-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique; Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories