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Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement
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Webster, Travis Allan
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, English: Composition and Rhetoric.
Abstract
The Ex-Gay Movement marks a contemporary, traditionally North American emergence of "reparative" therapies and ministries that attempt to convert gay men and lesbians into "straight" identities. Pray the Gay Away theorizes these reparative rhetoric(s) as arenas that create discursive spaces of tension - what I call "second closets” for "ex-gays" in virtual and material contexts. Through digital, rhetorical analyses, this thesis investigates the performative and linguistic reactions of ex-gays exhibited in online testimonies on pro-ex-gay websites, while examining rhetoric(s) of counter-hegemonic, online communities that seek to work against the Ex-Gay Movement.
Committee
LuMing Mao, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Michele Simmons, Dr. (Committee Member)
Madelyn Detloff, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
52 p.
Subject Headings
Composition
;
Rhetoric
Keywords
Rhetoric
;
composition
;
ex-gay rhetoric
;
public discourse
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Webster, T. A. (2008).
Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518
APA Style (7th edition)
Webster, Travis.
Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement.
2008. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Webster, Travis. "Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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