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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
(http://harlotofthearts.org/)

Harlot is a digital meeting place, forum, and journal for everyone interested in playful yet serious conversations about rhetoric in everyday life.

Special Issue: Family Rhetoric
(http://tinyurl.com/2gycn4j)

Deadline: January 15, 2011

For this issue of Harlot, we are calling for rhetorically reflective stories (rhetflections, if you will), analyses, and critiques of family. We want to learn about communication in that pervasively hidden community where you use rhetorical tactics to negotiate spaces, passive aggressive behaviors, and statements that foreclose argument with an audience of relatives. We want to learn about the rhetorical practices of moms, dads, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents; we want to know about the rhetorical moves that make them what they are. In other words, we want to learn about the rhetoric of family.

This special issue provides an opportunity for exploring family rhetorics and the ways in which your own experiences or the ones you see around you rhetorically construct family. Areas of interest for this special journal issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Family in media representations
•• TV
•• Film
•• Web
•• Portraits
•• The White House

Family in social networking communities
•• Forums
•• Blogs
•• Facebook
•• MySpace
•• Twitter

Family and
•• gender
•• race
•• class
•• disability
•• transgressions

Expose your insights traditionally (words coupling with other words like an essay, poem, or short story) or non-traditionally (words coupling with video, pics, sounds or multimedia like a film, a website or a speech).

See the full call for submissions at
(http://tinyurl.com/2gycn4j)

If you have questions, please contact the Harlot Editorial Board at harlot.osu@gmail.com.