TY - JOUR
T1 - Corps/corpse
T2 - The U.S. military and homosexuality
AU - Brouwer, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
DANIEL C. BROUWER (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000) is an assistant professor of human communication at Arizona State University. Portions of this manuscript appeared in the author's doctoral dissertation, as a manuscript presented at the 2001 Western States Communication Association conference, and in remarks composed for the 2003 Last Lecture Award at Arizona State University. This project was partially supported by the College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, in the form of a Dean's Incentive Grant. The author wishes to thank three anonymous reviewers as well as Daniel J. Canary, Catherine Squires, Janice Norton, and especially Michele Hammers for their thoughtful and careful comments.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - I examine testimony of over thirty military witnesses during four days of 1993 congressional hearings addressing the controversy over gays and lesbians serving openly in the United States military. Witnesses dispute two major topics: the “nature” of the military, and the “nature” of homosexuals. These topics parallel dual meanings of “corps” that structure this controversy—corps as a social body and corps as the flesh of physical bodies. More broadly, I argue that the rhetorical strategies of incorporation and disin-corporation function as indices of power, for these strategies are unequally available to the disputants and engender disparate rhetorical effects.
AB - I examine testimony of over thirty military witnesses during four days of 1993 congressional hearings addressing the controversy over gays and lesbians serving openly in the United States military. Witnesses dispute two major topics: the “nature” of the military, and the “nature” of homosexuals. These topics parallel dual meanings of “corps” that structure this controversy—corps as a social body and corps as the flesh of physical bodies. More broadly, I argue that the rhetorical strategies of incorporation and disin-corporation function as indices of power, for these strategies are unequally available to the disputants and engender disparate rhetorical effects.
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U2 - 10.1080/10570310409374811
DO - 10.1080/10570310409374811
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10244230996
SN - 1057-0314
VL - 68
SP - 411
EP - 430
JO - Western Journal of Communication
JF - Western Journal of Communication
IS - 4
ER -