Böcker i Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities-serien

Analyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal judgment are deeply contested concepts instead of simple character traits.

Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.

Provides first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense. Disorder in the Court traces the US legal standards for the insanity defense as they have evolved from 1843, when they were first codified in England, to 1984, when the US government attempted to revise them through the Insanity Defense Reform Act.

In this landmark study, Marouf Hasian illuminates both the discursive and visual argumentative strategies that drone supporters and critics both rely on. He comprehensively reviews how advocates and detractors parse and re-contextualize drone images, casualty figures, governmental "white papers", NGO reports, documentaries, and blogs to support their points of view.