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:
"In our current political moment, in which LGBTQ teachers are facing increasing precarity, censorship, and repression, VanHaitsma's history is particularly vital and timely....The Erotic as Rhetorical Power is an imaginatively written, analytically nuanced, and methodologically sophisticated historical study--a must-read for feminist and queer historians in rhetoric, communication, education, and allied fields." --J Palmeri, Critical Studies in Media Communication