Winner of the 2022 Association for the Rhetoric of Science,
Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Book Award Winner of the 2022
Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of
Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition What
It Feels Like interrogates an underexamined reason for our failure
to abolish rape in the United States: the way we communicate about
it. Using affective and feminist materialist approaches to
rhetorical criticism, Stephanie Larson examines how discourses
about rape and sexual assault rely on strategies of containment,
denying the felt experiences of victims and ultimately stalling
broader claims for justice. Investigating anti-pornography debates
from the 1980s, Violence Against Women Act advocacy materials,
sexual assault forensic kits, public performances, and the #MeToo
movement, Larson reveals how our language privileges male
perspectives and, more deeply, how it is shaped by systems of
power-patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and heteronormativity.
Interrogating how these systems work to propagate masculine
commitments to "science" and "hard evidence," Larson finds that US
culture holds a general mistrust of testimony by women,
stereotyping it as "emotional." But she also gives us hope for
change, arguing that testimonies grounded in the bodily, material
expression of violation are necessary for giving voice to victims
of sexual violence and presenting, accurately, the scale of these
crimes. Larson makes a case for visceral rhetorics, theorizing them
as powerful forms of communication and persuasion. Demonstrating
the communicative power of bodily feeling, Larson challenges the
long-held commitment to detached, distant, rationalized discourses
of sexual harassment and rape. Timely and poignant, the book offers
a much-needed corrective to our legal and political discourses.
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