Chapter 1. Introduction: Naked in Public (For a Cause)
Chapter 2. Chained Women and Running Nudes: PETA's Body
Rhetoric
Chapter 3. Weaponizing the Breast: Lactivism and Public
Breastfeeding
Chapter 4. Can You See Me Now, Driver? World Naked Bike Ride
Chapter 5. Political Display and the Mediated Body: Exhibition and
Politics on CollegeHumor.com
Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Nude Body and the Public Sphere
Brett Lunceford is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Alabama.
Set within the foundations of rhetorical theory and critique as
well as scholarship on social movements, Lunceford focuses on the
body as a site of resistance and as a means of persuasion. . .
Other scholars have done similar analyses of bodies as symbolic of
protest messages, but none have done so extensively and so
engagingly as Lunceford, who often attracts his reader’s attention
with a personal story, then narrates and analyzes a moment of
protest, at times by letting a protester tell his or her story, and
finally speculates to what extent the display of nudity seems to
convey the chosen message or how that message is misinterpreted or
is distorted by the display itself . ... [T]he book [is] an
enjoyable and informative read, covering some movements that [are
very] familiar such as PETA and lactivism, and some that were new.
. . particularly the political protests via CollegeHumor.com.
Lunceford certainly has placed his study well within the rhetorical
conversation about how bodies can convey rather sophisticated
messages and resist normalization. . . . Lunceford. . . has
excelled in analyzing how, with each such social movement, the body
sets up a problematic and nuanced transaction between the viewer
and the nude. The book should be welcomed not only by established
rhetorical scholars, particularly those who do ‘‘body work,’’ but
also by graduate students who need to encounter such scholarly
conversations in their seminars.
*Rhetoric Society Quarterly*
Tracing the naked body as a tool of protest across a range of
political protests from the public sphere to online spaces, Brett
Lunceford presents a beautifully-argued research which demonstrates
the complexity through which naked body rhetoric emerges in the
political scene today. Naked Politics provides a concise,
historically-informed and highly-accessible analysis of the
rhetorical power of nudity as a method of protest.
*Rob Cover, The University of Western Australia*
This insightful and fascinating close-up look at nude protest draws
elegantly on a wide range of social and cultural theory. Moving
through a series of well-chosen case studies, it is an intelligent
exploration of the complexities and contradictions involved in
choosing nakedness as a vehicle for protest.
*Ruth Barcan, The University of Sydney*
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