Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: deliberation in the global era -- 1 Defining deliberative space: rethinking persuasion, position, and identification -- 2 Performative deliberation and the narratable who -- 3 Narrating rights, creating agents: missing women in the U.S. media -- 4 The beauty of Arendt's lies: Menchú's political strategy -- 5 Voting like a girl: declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index