Corporal Rhetoric - Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era

Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction

About the author

Barbara Schneider is professor of English at the University of Toledo. Her scholarship has appeared in CCC, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Pedagogy, and the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. She has also contributed chapters to anthologies, including Rhetorical Bodies.

Summary

Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Schneider
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780817320959
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2095-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 545 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanit; Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics