Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"VanHaitsma's book provides readers a theoretically-rich, methodologically-astute, deeply researched, and historically nuanced intervention, one that offers historians of rhetoric a rich font of past discourse to explore and contemporary critics and theorists a powerful tool in the erotic for imagining our past and future otherwise." --Thomas R. Dunn, Quarterly Journal of Speech