Conceiving Normalcy - Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility

Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Countering the commonsensical notion that mandatory insurance coverage functions primarily to relieve the problem of infertility, Britt argues instead that the coverage serves to expose its contours.

About the author

Elizabeth C. Britt is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University.

Summary

Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Countering the commonsensical notion that mandatory insurance coverage functions primarily to relieve the problem of infertility, Britt argues instead that the coverage serves to expose its contours.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Britt, Elizabeth C Britt, Elizabeth C. Britt
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2014
• EAN: 9780817357900
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5790-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique; Rhetoric Culture & Social Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique; Rhetoric Culture & Social Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology