Böcker i Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique-serien

Through a series of textual analyses examining public discourse, this book uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. It also examines such related issues as: overturning sodomy laws; public debates over same-sex marriages; medical and social responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis; and more.

Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Countering the commonsensical notion that mandatory insurance coverage functions primarily to relieve the problem of infertility, Britt argues instead that the coverage serves to expose its contours.

Considers the question "Who is a Jew?"-- a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike

Presents the US South as a pulsating rhetorical landscape, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground and contaminate the soil. This provocative text focuses on predominantly white southern universities where Old South rhetoric still reverberates.