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- Title
Corps/Corpse: The U.S. Military and Homosexuality.
- Authors
Brouwer, Daniel C.
- Abstract
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 disincorporation function as indices of power, for these strategies are unequally available to the disputants and engender disparate rhetorical effects.
- Subjects
WITNESSES; GAY people; LESBIANS; ARMED Forces; POWER (Social sciences)
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2004, Vol 68, Issue 4, p411
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310409374811