FDR's body politics : the rhetoric of disability /
Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polioinduced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics, Davis W. H...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2003.
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| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Serie: | Presidential rhetoric series ;
no. 8. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=102407 |
Sommario:
- Keeping secrets
- Quo vadis?
- In sickness and in health
- Looking for looker
- A new deal and a new body
- A satisfactory embodiment
- Body politics.