Body Talk Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction

Name: Body Talk Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction
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ISBN: 9780299167943

ISBN-10: 0299167941

ISBN-13: 9780299167943

Edition: 2000

Authors: Mary M. Lay, Laura J. Gurak, Clare Gravon, Cynthia Myntti

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 2/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Laura J. Gurak is associate professor at the University of Minnesota, faculty fellow at the University of Minnestoa Law School, and director of the Internet Studies Center.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Rhetoric of Reproductive Technologies




Historical Bases of Reproductive Discourse



Figuring the Reproductive Woman: The Construction of Professional Identity in Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery Texts




Minding the Uterus: C. T. Javert and Psychosomatic Abortion




Gym Periods and Monthly Periods: Concepts of Menstruation in American Physical Education, 1900-1940




God Willed It! Gynecology at the Checkout Stand: Reproductive Technology in the Women's Service Magazine, 1977-1996




Reproduction, Language, and Medical Models



Women's Reproductive Choices and the Genetic Model of Medicine




Bodies, Minds, and Failures: Images of Women in Infertility Clinics




The Politics of Language in Surgical Contraception




Baby Talk: The Rhetorical Production of Maternal and Fetal Selves




Reproduction and Legal/Policy Issues



Medical Insurance as Bio-Power: Law and the Normalization of (In)fertility




The Legal Status of Direct-Entry Midwives in the United States: Balancing Tradition with Modern Medicine




Hot Tomalley: Women's Bodies and Environmental Politics in the State of Maine




The Construction of Public Health in the FDA Hearings on Silicone Breast Implants



Afterword: Technologies of the Exterior, Technologies of the Interior--Can We Expand the Discourse of Reproductive Studies?



Contributors


Index