Maggie M. Werner is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

“Werner articulates the utility of her argument of bodies being multicoded. “Embodied rhetorical scholarship that focuses on multicoded bodies and performances—like the performances explored in this book—has the potential to remake rhetorical scholarship from the outside in” (165). Ultimately, at its core, Stripped is a book on rhetorical methods for reading the body that can even be taken up beyond the context of the erotic.”—Sidney Turner Rhetoric Review

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Embodied Criticism of the Erotic Body1. Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric2. “You’re Bound to Find Out She Don’t Love You”: Genre and the Erotic Body3. The Pleasures of Process: Neo-burlesque’s Seductive Rhetoric4. “I am a woman. This is my body”: Re-Articulating Identity in Sex-Work Activism5. (Anti) Feminist Monsters: Alterity Rhetorics and the Signifying BodyConclusion: Embodied Erotic Rhetoric’s Acceptance and RejectionNotesBibliographyIndex

Maggie M. Werner is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

“Werner articulates the utility of her argument of bodies being multicoded. “Embodied rhetorical scholarship that focuses on multicoded bodies and performances—like the performances explored in this book—has the potential to remake rhetorical scholarship from the outside in” (165). Ultimately, at its core, Stripped is a book on rhetorical methods for reading the body that can even be taken up beyond the context of the erotic.”—Sidney Turner Rhetoric Review

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Embodied Criticism of the Erotic Body1. Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric2. “You’re Bound to Find Out She Don’t Love You”: Genre and the Erotic Body3. The Pleasures of Process: Neo-burlesque’s Seductive Rhetoric4. “I am a woman. This is my body”: Re-Articulating Identity in Sex-Work Activism5. (Anti) Feminist Monsters: Alterity Rhetorics and the Signifying BodyConclusion: Embodied Erotic Rhetoric’s Acceptance and RejectionNotesBibliographyIndex