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. Britt uses extensive interviews with women undergoing fertility treatments to provide the foundation for her detailed analysis. While her study focuses on the example of infertility, it is also more broadly a commentary on the power of definition to frame experience, on the burdens and responsibilities of belonging to social collectives, and on the ability of rhetorical criticism to interrogate cultural formations.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Britt, Elizabeth C Britt, Elizabeth C. Britt
• Editore: The University of Alabama Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2014
• EAN: 9780817357900
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5790-0
• Pagine: 220
• Serie: 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
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia