The body has always been an implicit concern for rhetorical studies. This essay suggests that that implicit concern has mostly relied on an abstract, and specific, concept of the body. It is only through bodily difference in contrast to the unspoken, yet specified, white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterosexual male standard that particular bodies come to matter. The essay ends with a discussion of the body of the black civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, in order to enact a “textual stare” at the field of rhetoric. This stare calls the field to be more attentive to what kinds of rhetorical performance are accepted on their own terms and what kinds deserve scrutiny.

Book Review| September 01 2013 We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing. By Dana L. Cloud. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011; pp. xvi + 236. $55.00 cloth. Karma R. Chávez Karma R. Chávez University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (3): 597–600. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Karma R. Chávez; We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2013; 16 (3): 597–600. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0597 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.