Hesford Spectacular Rhetorics

Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9381-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Next wave

Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hesford, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Human Rights Visions and Recognitions

2. Staging Terror Spectacles

3. Witnessing Rape Warfare: Suspending the Spectacle

4. Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities

5. Spectacular Childhoods: Sentimentality and the Politics of (In)visibility

Conclusion: Posthumanism, Human Rights, and the Humanities

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy S. Hesford is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy, a co-author of Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture, and a co-editor of Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation and Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the “Real.”