Righteous Rhetoric
Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2014. május 22.
- ISBN 9780199337507
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem256 oldal
- Méret 236x155x25 mm
- Súly 454 g
- Nyelv angol 0
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Rövid leírás:
Through a detailed study of the sexually-charged rhetoric of one of America's largest conservative women's organizations, Concerned Women for America (CWA), Righteous Rhetoric argues that the absolute, ordered platforms for which CWA is known are not the linchpin of its political power. Rather, such absolutes are the byproduct of a more fundamental rhetorical process called "chaos rhetoric", a type of speech designed to create a heightened sense of social chaos.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
It is commonly thought that the main distinction of the New Christian Right (NCR) lies in its absolutist theologies and religious fervor. Offering a detailed study of one of the nation's leading conservative Christian women's organizations, Concerned Women for America (CWA), Leslie Smith argues that the absolute, ordered platforms for which CWA is known are not the source of its political power. Rather, such absolutes are the byproduct of "chaos rhetoric," a type of speech whose widespread public appeal stems from its deployment of symbols that create a heightened sense of social chaos and threat. Carefully manufacturing these negative emotions, the group is in a prime position to offer its own platforms as the answer to the threat. Smith focuses on CWA's strategic manipulation of particular cultural symbols to naturalize and market its own political interests, many of which revolve around issues of sex. Sex is a symbolic gold mine for many NCR groups not only because it has been cast as the ultimate emblem of morality, but more fundamentally because its regulation (through gender, identity, reproduction, and the family) is critical to the control of society at large. Righteous Rhetoric highlights the centrality of sex to CWA's political enterprise, revealing how the organization's continual fusion of sexual morals with national fortitude, facilitated by chaos rhetoric, lays bare its nationalist agendas. Smith closes by showing that chaos rhetoric is by no means a monopoly of the NCR, but is rather a ubiquitous tactic used by many groups in the fight for social dominance. A more likely source of distinction for groups like CWA, she argues, lies not in radically different theologies or political tactics, but in the ability to flexibly fuse their own identities with America's most beloved symbols in such a way that their own existence is rendered inseparable from the nation's very survival.
A rich analysis...What makes this book so valuable is not just that it offers an insightful analysis of an important national organization. It also provides a significant new framework for understanding contemporary political rhetoric across the political spectrum.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I.Introduction: Chaos Rhetoric and the Public Construction of American Morality
II. Chapter One:
Second Verse, Same as the First: A History of Conservative American Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Rhetoric
III. Chapter Two:
The Architecture of Chaos Rhetoric: Emotion, Myth, Persuasion
IV: Chapter Three:
All Things to All People: CWA as True Feminism
V. Chapter Four:
Sex and Cultural Salvation: CWA and Nationalist Rhetoric
VI. Chapter Five:
Lonely Messengers?: The Ubiquity of Chaos Rhetoric
Notes
Bibliography
Index
