Sexual rhetoric: media perspectives on sexuality, gender, and identity

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Preface Introduction Media Rhetoric: A Way of Knowing by Meta G. Carstarphen Media Messages: Visual Literacy/Visual Rhetoric by Susan Zavoina Historic The Liberator's Ladies' Department, 1832-1837: Freedom or Fetters? by Jacqueline Bacon To Strengthen the Wings of a Caged Bird: Constructing Woman in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and The Una by Allessandria Polizzi Newspaper War in the Ranks: Newspaper Coverage of Sexual Harassment in the Military by Gene Murray A Frenzy of Interest over the Perplexing Puzzle of Being a Man in America: Print Media Coverage of the Promise Keepers and Mythopoets by Dane S. Claussen Necrophilia, Pedophilia, or Both?: The Sexualized Rhetoric of the JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case by Diane York Blaine The Visual Image in Media Media Mirage: The Thin Ideal as Digital Manipulation by Jacqueline C. Hitchon and Shiela Reaves The Historical Development of Women's Posing from the Post Gold Rush Era to the Present Print Media by Cecelia Baldwin Magazine Time of the Month: Adolescence, Advertising, and Menstruation by Debra Merskin Face-ism Reconsidered: Facial Prominence and Body Emphasis of Males and Females in Magazine Advertising by Kathy Brittain McKee and Carol J. Pardum Designed for (Male) Pleasure: The Myth of Lesbian Chic in Mainstream Advertising by Tom Reichert, Kevin R. Maly, and Susan Zavoina That Undefinable Whatever: Selling Virginity by Elizabeth Dietz Gendered Bodies Still Thrive in (Post) Modern Magazine Land by Jacqueline J. Lambliase, et al. Television Super Bowl Speak: Subtexts of Sex and Sex Talk in America's Annual Sports Extravaganza by Linda K. Fuller Agitational Versality: When Truth Met Jordan by Phyllis Pearson Elmore Deconstructing Ellen: Time, Sitcoms, and the Meaning of Gayness by Meta G. Carstarphen and Susan Stearns We Got Next: The WNBA Advertising Campaign's Negotiations with Feminity by Kara Keeling Video Competing Rhetorical Strategies in the Gay and Lesbian Video Wars: Marching for Freedom and Gay Rights, Special Rights by Emile C. Netzhammer Contradictions in the Country: Rituals of Sexual Subordination and Strength in Music Video by Julie L. Andsager Inventing a Sexual Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of Video Box Covers by Joseph W. Slade Film Sexual Imagery and the Space of Love by Anthony Enns Cyberspace Third Wave Feminism and Cybersexuality: The Cultural Backlash of the New Girl Order by Kimber Charles Pearce Girls Can Be Doctors and Boys Can Be Nurses: Surfing for Solutions to Gender Stereotyping by Paul Martin Lester Index