Journal Articles by Skye de Saint Felix
Argumentation and Advocacy, 2020
Tracking all mentions of Ronald Reagan during presidential primary and general election debates f... more Tracking all mentions of Ronald Reagan during presidential primary and general election debates from 1988 to 2016, we suggest that<Reagan>has emerged as a complex ideograph in contemporary political discourse. Demonstrating what we call the “personified ideograph,” this essay tracks the reverence toward Reagan that indicates the name’s status as a god term, and suggests the historic meaning of the ideograph is linked to
secondary terms like “principled,” “peace through strength,” and “prosperity.” We further contend that such a calcified memory of Reagan has led to a schism in the GOP, and we describe the alternative understanding of<Reagan>as linked to such terms as “bipartisanship” and “change.”
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After Senator Wendy Davis’s epic filibuster of Texas’s House Bill 2 in 2013, she was vilified in ... more After Senator Wendy Davis’s epic filibuster of Texas’s House Bill 2 in 2013, she was vilified in the media as “Abortion Barbie.” As a term, “Abortion Barbie” was circulated in conservative and libe...
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This thesis provides a rhetorical history of abortion discourse with an emphasis on the rhetorica... more This thesis provides a rhetorical history of abortion discourse with an emphasis on the rhetorical moment from 2013-2016. To uncover the rhetorical strategies used to shape consensus on abortion, I highlight three major events—Senator Wendy Davis’s (D-Fort Worth) notorious 13-hour filibuster against Texas’s HB2, the conservative capture of Davis as Abortion Barbie, and the Supreme Court case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016). Because of these key rhetorical moments, pro-choice and anti-choice publics cultivated a period of heightened tension that reinvigorated abortion debates. While pro-choice groups employed narrative to centralize women as rhetorical agents and open spaces to discuss abortion, anti-choice publics used visual rhetoric to vilify women and accentuate the fetus. But with both ideologies adopting scientific rhetoric, the Supreme Court intervened to determine evidenced-based truth and settle disputed abortion law. This helped make abortion a major political i...
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Journal Articles by Skye de Saint Felix
secondary terms like “principled,” “peace through strength,” and “prosperity.” We further contend that such a calcified memory of Reagan has led to a schism in the GOP, and we describe the alternative understanding of<Reagan>as linked to such terms as “bipartisanship” and “change.”
Papers by Skye de Saint Felix
secondary terms like “principled,” “peace through strength,” and “prosperity.” We further contend that such a calcified memory of Reagan has led to a schism in the GOP, and we describe the alternative understanding of<Reagan>as linked to such terms as “bipartisanship” and “change.”