The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers

by Pamela Vanhaitsma

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions of women teachers in same-sex romantic friendships. Extending perspectives from ancient rhetoric to nineteenth-century progressivism, from Audre Lorde's Black lesbian feminist theory to its present-day uptakes, Pamela VanHaitsma conceives of the erotic as an interanimation of desires that, in being passionately shared, becomes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814259243
• ISBN13: 9780814259245
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"