Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Deliberation in the Global Era 1 1 Defining Deliberative Space: Rethinking Persuasion, Position, and Identification 29 2 Performative Deliberation and the Narratable Who 66 3 Narrating Rights, Creating Agents: Missing Women in the U.S. Media 103 4 The Beauty of Arendt’s Lies: Menchú’s Political Strategy 127 5 Voting like a Girl: Declarations, Paradoxes of Deliberation, and Embodied Citizens as a Difference in Kind 151 Notes 183 Works Cited 197 Index 215 ...