Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric - Searching the Negative Spaces in Histories of Rhetoric

Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric uses a feminist disability framework to argue that women's bodies are understood within a medical framework of pathology directly related to their ability, or inability, to reproduce.

List of contents

Introduction: Rhetorical Listening to Negative Space
Part I: Echo-Location: Classical Conceptions
Chapter 1: Wondering Wombs: Conception Consumed
Chapter 2: Echolocation and Ventriloquism
Chapter 3: Ambiguous Forms: Sonogram of a Sophist
Part II: The Maternal Imagination of Sonogram
Chapter 4: The Mêtic Midwife
Chapter 5: Genres of Generation, Reproduction Instructions
Chapter 6: The Monstrous Imagination of Mêtis
Conclusion: Reverberations

About the author

By Lydia McDermott

Summary

Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric uses a feminist disability framework to argue that women’s bodies are understood within a medical framework of pathology directly related to their ability, or inability, to reproduce.

Product details

• Authors: Lydia Mcdermott, McDermott Lydia
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781498540483
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4048-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Discourse Analysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Communication Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Communication Studies;Health Communication;Women's Studies