Dissertation
ON THE BODY, EMBODIMENT, AND POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF QUEER
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/117071
Abstract
This dissertation attempts to complicate our understanding of norms as immaterial. I theorize that repronormativity, or the reproduction of norms to sustain a white, male, cisgender, linear, and written discourse, ensures that dominant ideologies persist. I argue that repronormativity relies upon heteronormativity and the commodification of corporeal bodies into norms in order to sustain the current hegemony. Using a queer theoretical framework, I queer the distinction between how we conceive of the body as static and embodiment as a doing or becoming in the field of rhetoric and composition. Rather, I posit that bodying is a queer and feminist rhetorical strategy that seeks to disrupt the commodification that repronormativity depends upon. I push us to consider that the body is itself integral to the rhetorical strategies of those traditionally excluded by hegemony and even in higher education. I suggest that as we engage in multimodality in composition that we consider queer composition and bodying in our approaches, as the ‘how’ of queer composition may be further realized within our field.
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- Title
- ON THE BODY, EMBODIMENT, AND POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF QUEER
- Creators
- Zarah Catherine Moeggenberg
- Contributors
- Victor Villanueva (Advisor)Jacqueline Rhodes (Committee Member)Ashley Boyd (Committee Member)Wendy Olson (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of English
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 176
- Identifiers
- 99900581625201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation