Progay/Antigay: The Rhetorical War Over SexualitySAGE Publications, 2000 M02 3 - 264 páginas Combining humanistic rhetorical criticism with social scientific concepts, Ralph R. Smith and Russel R. Windes examine how the discourse of the progay/antigay debate shapes the self-understanding and strategies of the two opposing sides. The struggle over issues such as lesbians and gay men serving openly in the military, same-sex marriage, and inclusion of "sexual orientation" in anti-discrimination and hate crime laws have evolved along with the development of rival progay and traditionalist antigay communities. In the process of presenting their arguments to the wider society, the two sides exercise extraordinary influence on each other. As a result of the public policy debates, the progay movement has moved toward an essentialist, non-sexual identity, while the traditionalists have shifted toward a secular public self-representation. Progay/Antigay also analyzes the internal disagreements within the two movements. The same-sex marriage debate illustrates important dimensions of the contest over sexuality. The authors examine rhetorical strategy and counter-strategy in this specific institutional context. Progay/Antigay also discusses how the study of the variant sexuality issue provides the opportunity to assess paths for reconciliation and to judge concepts of political pluralism and multiculturalism. |
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... positions is an historically contingent textualizing process . " The subject is a position within a text . To be an embedded subject is to experience and act in a textualized world ” ( p . 141 ) . We are led by this theory of ...
... positions , the support of targeted audiences , and the opportunity to im- plement their solutions " ( Ellingson , 1997 , p . 272 ) . Clearly , the struggle to produce identities and frames is , therefore , undertaken in an atmosphere ...
... positions . Rhetorician Celeste Condit Railsback ( 1984 ) correctly asserts that critics should not focus " on the advocacy of only one side of a controversy , " but instead ought to analyze the " social text created by the advocates of ...
... position on homosexuality . The examination of gay / lesbian public policy issues begins in Chapter 1 with a ... positions have constructed a variety of elemental appeals which surface in different combinations in most pub- lic policy ...
... position in the pub- lic sphere . Both lay claim to virtue in their struggle against an evil nemesis . The projections generated in contests of representation are creations de- signed to establish a dominant interpretive package ...
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Chapter 2 Analysis of Communication in Contests Over Variant Sexuality | 35 |
Chapter 3 Appeals in Progay and Traditionalist Discourses | 57 |
Chapter 4 Antagonistic Construction of Identity and Conflict | 93 |
Chapter 5 Debate Within Communities | 127 |
A Case Study | 155 |
Chapter 7 Criticism of the Variant Sexuality Issue Culture | 181 |
References | 203 |
Index | 227 |
About the Authors | 239 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Progay/Antigay: The Rhetorical War Over Sexuality Ralph R. Smith,Russel R. Windes Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Progay/Antigay: The Rhetorical War Over Sexuality Ralph R. Smith,Russel R. Windes Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |