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Active Voices: composing a rhetoric for social movements by Sharon McKenzie Stevens (Editor); Patricia M. Malesh (Editor)
Call Number: P301.5.S63 A28 2009 Print Books
ISBN: 9781438426273
Publication Date: 2009
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
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Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest by Charles E. Morris (Editor); Stephen H. Browne (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781891136160
Publication Date: 2006
Includes thirty-five of significant essays from groundbreaking theoretical works to very recent case studies.
Reclaiming Queer: activist & academic rhetorics of resistance by Erin J. Rand
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Offers an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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ISBN: 9780230309180
Publication Date: 2013
Explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It provides an overview of the relationship between social movements and technology, and investigates what is behind the communication infrastructure that made possible the main protest events of the past fifteen years.

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