An Emerging Electronic Rhetoric of the Body: Arguing the Feminine in Cyberspace
http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/2003/PDFs/STC50-040.pdf

Tulley, Ronald J. and Christine E. Tulley
STC Proceedings
2003

Abstract:

Some form of a body rhetoric has existed since classical times. If rhetoric can be loosely defined as a means of persuasion, then an electronic rhetoric of the body, for the purposes of this essay, can be defined as the ways in which the body is used to persuade, the ways it becomes the language of a culture for both genders. But what should we consider 'the electronic body' to consist of? The physical body? The mental body? And here is where the problem lies… But before an electronic rhetoric can be established, historical precedent must first be clarified.