Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest
second edition
Charles E. Morris III
Boston College
Stephen Howard Browne
The Pennsylvania State University
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
SECTION I: ORIENTATIONS
Chapter 1: Foundations
Leland M. Griffin, "The Rhetoric of Historical Movements" (1952)
Franklyn S. Haiman, "The Rhetoric of the Streets: Some Legal and Ethical Considerations" (1967)
Robert L. Scott and Donald K. Smith, "The Rhetoric of Confrontation" (1969)
Herbert W. Simons, "Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements" (1970)
Richard B. Gregg, "The Ego Function of the Rhetoric of Protest" (1971)
Theodore Otto Windt, Jr., "The Diatribe: Last Resort for Protest" (1972)
Robert L. Scott, "The Conservative Voice in Radical Rhetoric: A Common Response to Division" (1973)
Ralph R. Smith and Russell Windes, "The Innovational Movement: A Rhetorical Theory" (1975)
Robert S. Cathcart, "Movements: Confrontation as Rhetorical Form" (1978)
Chapter 2: Competing Perspectives
Malcolm O. Sillars, "Defining Social Movements Rhetorically: Casting the Widest Net" (1980)
Michael Calvin McGee, "Social 'Movement': Phenomenon or Meaning?" (1980)
David Zarefsky, "A Skeptical View of Movement Studies" (1980)
Stephen E. Lucas, "Coming to Terms with Movement Studies" (1980)
James R. Andrews, "History and Theory in the Study of the Rhetoric of Social Movements" (1980)
Charles J. Stewart, "A Functional Approach to the Rhetoric of Social Movements" (1980)
SECTION II: Critical Touchstones
Chapter 3: Tactics for External Audiences
James R. Andrews, "Confrontation at Columbia: A Case Study in Coercive Rhetoric" (1969)
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, "The Rhetoric of Women's Liberation: An Oxymoron" (1973) Kathryn M. Olson and G. Thomas Goodnight, "Entanglements of Consumption, Cruelty, Privacy and Fashion: The Social Controversy over Fur" (1994)
Stephen H. Browne, "'Like Gory Spectres': Representing Evil in Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is" (1994)
*Michael J. Hyde and Kenneth Rufo, "The Call of Conscience, Rhetorical Interruptions, and the Euthanasia Controversy" (2000)
*Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples, "From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the 'Violence' of Seattle" (2002)
*Phaedra C. Pezzullo, "Resisting 'National Breast Cancer Awareness Month': The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances" (2003)
Chapter 4: Tactics for Internal Audiences
Randall A. Lake, "Enacting Red Power: The Consummatory Function of Native American Protest Rhetoric" (1983)
*John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen, "Ethnic Heritage as Rhetorical Legacy: The Plan of Delano" (1994)
*Bonnie J. Dow, "AIDS, Perspective by Incongruity, and Gay Identity in Larry Kramer's '1,112 and Counting'" (1994)
Mari Boor Tonn, "Militant Motherhood: Labor's Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones" (1996)
*J. Michael Hogan and Glen Williams, "Republican Charisma and the American Revolution: The Textual Persona of Thomas Paine's Common Sense" (2000)
Chapter 5: Tactics of Control
David Zarefsky, "President Johnson's War on Poverty: The Rhetoric of Three 'Establishment' Movements" (1977)
John M. Murphy, "Domesticating Dissent: The Kennedys and the Freedom Rides" (1992)
*Dana L. Cloud, "The Null Persona: Race and the Rhetoric of Silence in the Uprising of '34" (1999)
*Charles E. Morris III, "'Our Capital Aversion': Abigail Folsom, Madness, and Radical Antislavery Praxis" (2001)
Chapter 6: Tactical Modifications
Carl R. Burgchardt, "Two Faces of American Communism: Pamphlet Rhetoric of the Third Period and the Popular Front" (1980)
Celeste Condit Railsback, "The Contemporary American Abortion Controversy: Stages in the Argument" (1984)
James Darsey, "From 'Gay is Good' to the Scourge of AIDS: The Evolution of Gay Liberation Rhetoric, 1977-1990" (1991)
Charles J. Stewart, "The Evolution of a Revolution: Stokely Carmichael and the Rhetoric of Black Power" (1997)
Selected Bibliography
Index
*New to this edition.
Copyright © 2006 Charles E. Morris III and Stephen Howard Browne.
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