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"""Reclaiming Queer is a well-argued, fluidly composed text that makes a significant intervention into conversations concerning communication studies, queer theory, and questions of rhetorical agency. Rand offers an insightful look into the dialectical relationship between activist practices and academia, exploring instances where agency and resistance can be innovatively pursued. The case studies are especially provocative, offering insightful critical readings of Larry Kramer's polemics, the productive antics of the Lesbian Avengers, and the affective possibilities of remembering ACT UP."" --Jeffrey A. Bennett, author of Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance ""Reclaiming Queer makes a persuasive case for the importance of queer theory as a form of queer activism with a relationship to it. Rand's style is lucid and accessible, and I recommend this text to scholars of rhetoric, queer theorists and activists, feminist scholars, and to undergraduates in classes exploring queer theory, history, and community."" --QED Book Review ""Rand has made an argument about the nature of rhetorical agency as 'queer, ' one that will be of substantial interest to the rhetoricians in the traditions of communication and composition studies, and will add to the toolbox of concepts available for theorizing rhetorical agency. Her careful historical, textual and archival work makes her project one critical to the interests of scholars in gender and sexuality studies who have an eye for the effects of the emergence of queer theory on more traditional feminist, gender based, and gay and lesbian studies."" --Christian O. Lundberg, author of Lacan in Public ""Erin Rand's Reclaiming Queer constitutes a compelling queering of Rhetorical Studies by theorizing the fundamental and inextricable queerness--economy, paradox, style, risk--of rhetorical agency itself. Rand's deft engagements also provocatively and insightfully deepen our understanding of the rhetorical agency of Queer Theory's institutionalization, and she sounds a renewed call for pursuing the promise of undecidability, which is to say a queer rhetorical future."" --Charles E. Morris III, coeditor, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking"

"""Reclaiming Queer makes a persuasive case for the importance of queer theory as a form of queer activism with a relationship to it. Rand's style is lucid and accessible, and I recommend this text to scholars of rhetoric, queer theorists and activists, feminist scholars, and to undergraduates in classes exploring queer theory, history, and community."" --QED Book Review ""Rand has made an argument about the nature of rhetorical agency as 'queer, ' one that will be of substantial interest to the rhetoricians in the traditions of communication and composition studies, and will add to the toolbox of concepts available for theorizing rhetorical agency. Her careful historical, textual and archival work makes her project one critical to the interests of scholars in gender and sexuality studies who have an eye for the effects of the emergence of queer theory on more traditional feminist, gender based, and gay and lesbian studies."" --Christian O. Lundberg, author of Lacan in Public ""Reclaiming Queer is a well-argued, fluidly composed text that makes a significant intervention into conversations concerning communication studies, queer theory, and questions of rhetorical agency. Rand offers an insightful look into the dialectical relationship between activist practices and academia, exploring instances where agency and resistance can be innovatively pursued. The case studies are especially provocative, offering insightful critical readings of Larry Kramer's polemics, the productive antics of the Lesbian Avengers, and the affective possibilities of remembering ACT UP.""--Jeffrey A. Bennett, author of Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance ""Erin Rand's Reclaiming Queer constitutes a compelling queering of Rhetorical Studies by theorizing the fundamental and inextricable queerness--economy, paradox, style, risk--of rhetorical agency itself. Rand's deft engagements also provocatively and insightfully deepen our understanding of the rhetorical agency of Queer Theory's institutionalization, and she sounds a renewed call for pursuing the promise of undecidability, which is to say a queer rhetorical future."" --Charles E. Morris III, coeditor, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking"

"""Reclaiming Queer makes a persuasive case for the importance of queer theory as a form of queer activism with a relationship to it. Rand's style is lucid and accessible, and I recommend this text to scholars of rhetoric, queer theorists and activists, feminist scholars, and to undergraduates in classes exploring queer theory, history, and community."" —QED Book Review “Rand has made an argument about the nature of rhetorical agency as ‘queer,’ one that will be of substantial interest to the rhetoricians in the traditions of communication and composition studies, and will add to the toolbox of concepts available for theorizing rhetorical agency. Her careful historical, textual and archival work makes her project one critical to the interests of scholars in gender and sexuality studies who have an eye for the effects of the emergence of queer theory on more traditional feminist, gender based, and gay and lesbian studies.” —Christian O. Lundberg, author of Lacan in Public ""Reclaiming Queer is a well-argued, fluidly composed text that makes a significant intervention into conversations concerning communication studies, queer theory, and questions of rhetorical agency. Rand offers an insightful look into the dialectical relationship between activist practices and academia, exploring instances where agency and resistance can be innovatively pursued. The case studies are especially provocative, offering insightful critical readings of Larry Kramer's polemics, the productive antics of the Lesbian Avengers, and the affective possibilities of remembering ACT UP.""—Jeffrey A. Bennett, author of Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance ""Erin Rand's Reclaiming Queer constitutes a compelling queering of Rhetorical Studies by theorizing the fundamental and inextricable queerness—economy, paradox, style, risk—of rhetorical agency itself. Rand's deft engagements also provocatively and insightfully deepen our understanding of the rhetorical agency of Queer Theory's institutionalization, and she sounds a renewed call for pursuing the promise of undecidability, which is to say a queer rhetorical future.""  —Charles E. Morris III, coeditor, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking"

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Erin J. Rand is an assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies and affiliated with LGBT Studies at Syracuse University. Her work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, the Western Journal of Communication, and Women's Studies in Communication.

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