Conceiving Normalcy

Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility

Elizabeth Britt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2014
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-5790-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2014
Reihe/Serie	Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique
Verlagsort	Alabama
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	344 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8173-5790-4 / 0817357904
ISBN-13	978-0-8173-5790-0 / 9780817357900
Zustand	Neuware