Incongruous Bodies: Arguments for Personal Sufficiency and Public Insufficiency.

Hauser, Gerard A.

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ERIC Number: EJ592787

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Incongruous Bodies: Arguments for Personal Sufficiency and Public Insufficiency.

Hauser, Gerard A.

Argumentation and Advocacy, v36 n1 p1-8 Sum 1999

Discusses different views of regarding the body as a discursive site. Describes the articles in this special issue that suggest people's bodies are important and powerful sources of assertion and contention and that they provoke gains in identity and power. Discusses the character of argument itself by considering bodies as sources and sites of argument. (SC)

Descriptors: Body Image, Identification (Psychology), Persuasive Discourse

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Body Argument--Part 1.