The ARSTM Book Award Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 ARSTM Book Award: What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture by Stephanie R. Larson (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021).
What it Feels Like is a stunning act of feminist reclamation that invites rhetorical scholars of science, technology, and medicine to take seriously the role of lived, embodied knowledge when grasping a public health problem as complicated as sexual violence. By casting the bone-deep, visceral sensations of violation as invaluable rhetorical resources for speaking truth to rape culture, Larson turns seething injuries and gaping wounds into patriarchy-dismantling tools. She demonstrates the power of interdisciplinary work, bringing the work of Black feminists and intersectionality more centrally into studies of science, technology, and medicine. While her theoretical insights have great potential to add to our field, readers of the book will also find it accessible, addressing a number of contemporary contexts that will attract scholars both within and outside rhetorical studies.
Please join us for the presentation of the award at the ARSTM’s virtual business meeting on Monday, November 14th at 4pm (EST). Zoom link is forthcoming.
2022 ARSTM Book of the Year Award Committee:
Drs. John Lynch, Josie Walwema, and Allison Rowland