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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818620503321

Autore

Lunceford Brett

Titolo

Naked politics : nudity, political action, and the rhetoric of the body / / Brett Lunceford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

1-282-13405-1

9786613806635

0-7391-7702-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/613

Soggetti

Nudity - Political aspects

Human body - Political aspects

Political participation

Social action

Political activists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: naked in public (for a cause) -- Chained women and running nudes: PETA's body rhetoric -- Weaponizing the breast: lactivism and public breastfeeding -- Can you see me now, driver? World Naked Bike Ride -- Political display and the mediated body: exhibition and politics on Collegehumor.com -- Conclusion: the nude body in the public sphere.

Sommario/riassunto

Although public nudity as a form of political action has a history stretching back at least as far as Lady Godiva, Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, is one of the few books that examine political nudity from a rhetorical standpoint. Beginning with the notion that the body itself is communicative beyond the ability to speak, this work examines a variety of cases in which people employ the disrobed body for political ends.