Sexual Rhetorics

Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores the intersection of rhetoric and sexuality through the varieties of methods available in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, including case studies, theoretical questioning, ethnographies, or close (and distant) readings of "texts" that help us think through the rhetorical force of sexuality and the sexual force of rhetoric.

Jonathan Alexander is Professor of English, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA where he was the founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication.

Jacqueline Rhodes is Professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, USA.