Rhetorical bodies / edited by Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley.

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1999], ©1999.

ix, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Habeas corpus : an introduction / Jack Selzer. -- Contemporary U.S. memorial sites as exemplars of rhetoric's materiality / Carole Blair. -- Legible bodies : nineteenth-century women physicians and the rhetoric of dissection / Susan Wells. -- Conspicuous consumption: cannibal bodies and the rhetoric of the American West / Christine De Vinne. -- Material of desire : bodily rhetoric in working women's poetry at the Bryn Mawr Summer School, 1921-1938 / Karyn Hollis. -- Disintegrating bodies of knowledge : historical material and revisionary histories of rhetoric / Wendy B. Sharer. -- Figuring illiteracy : rustic bodies and unlettered minds in rural America / Peter mortensen. -- Material literacy and visual design / Lester Faigley. -- Autobiography after prozac / John Schilb. -- Material public and private : the spatialization of conceptual categories in discourses of abortion / Christina Haas. -- Rhetoric and technoscience : the case of confide / J. Blake Scott. -- Beard / Melissa Jane Hardie. -- Reading maternity materially : the case of Demi Moore / Barbara Dickson. -- Dick Morris, ideology, and the regulating the flow of rhetorical resources / Yameng Liu. -- The materiality of coding : rhetoric, genetics, and the matter of life / Celeste Condit. -- Afterword : the material of rhetoric / Sharon Crowley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-378) and index.