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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Rhetoric -- Social movements"”.
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Navigating Hate: The Public Deliberation of Matthew Shepard and Hate Crime Legislation
… Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009. Through a rhetorical criticism, this study finds that the nuances of Shepard’s narrative are abandoned in order to construct him as a “permissible” symbol for LGBTQ+ protections. However, if the permissibility of the symbol is violated, the discourse …
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The Social Construction of Deviance, Activism, and Identity in Women's Accounts of Abortion
… than one hundred years of evolution of popular rhetoric surrounding the practice of elective termination of pregnancy in the U.S. and identifies the understandings of abortion and the women who have them which are most prominent in our culture today. This dissertation examines the ways in which …