Introduction : embodied criticism of the erotic body -- Deploying delivery as critical method : neo-burlesque's embodied rhetoric -- "You're bound to find out she don't love you" : genre and the erotic body -- The pleasures of process : neo-burlesque's seductive rhetoric -- "I am a woman. This is my body" : rearticulating identity in sex-work activism -- (Anti-)feminist monsters : alterity rhetorics and the signifying body -- Conclusion : embodied erotic rhetoric's acceptance and rejection.
Summary
"Explores the bodies, acts, and discourses that constitute embodied erotic rhetoric by foregrounding the material communication practices of performing bodies and proposing complementary frameworks and theories for analyzing them"--