Conceiving Normalcy

Author : Elizabeth C. Britt
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357904
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Normalcy written by Elizabeth C. Britt and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conceiving normalcy, 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.

Author : Kylie Baldwin
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564851
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice written by Kylie Baldwin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explores the experiences of some of the pioneering users of social egg freezing technology in the UK and the USA.

Author : Courtney Adams Wooten
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646424395
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childfree and Happy written by Courtney Adams Wooten and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childfree and Happy examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm. Considering affect and emotion alongside the lived experiences of women who have chosen not to have children, Courtney Adams Wooten offers a new theoretical lens to feminist rhetorical scholars’ examinations of reproductive rhetorics and how they circulate through women’s lives by paying attention not just to spoken or written beliefs but also to affectual circulations of reproductive doxa. Through interviews with thirty-four childfree women and analysis of childfree rhetorics circulating in historical and contemporary texts and events, this book demonstrates how childfree women individually and collectively try to speak back to common beliefs about their reproductive experiences, even as they struggle to make their identities legible in a sociocultural context that centers motherhood. Childfree and Happy theorizes how affect and rhetoric work together to circulate reproductive doxa by using Sara Ahmed’s theories of gendered happiness scripts to analyze what reproductive doxa is embedded in those scripts and how they influence rhetoric by, about, and around childfree women. Delving into how childfree women position their decision not to have children and the different types of interactions they have with others about this choice, including family members, friends, colleagues, and medical professionals, Childfree and Happy also explores how communities that make space for alternative happiness scripts form between childfree women and those who support them. It will be of interest to scholars in the fields of the rhetoric of motherhood/mothering, as well as feminist rhetorical studies.

Author : Robin E. Jensen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078197
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infertility written by Robin E. Jensen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous popular and scientific news coverage, Robin Jensen parses the often thin rhetorical divide between moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating explanations for infertility have emerged from seemingly competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways in which old arguments and appeals do not disappear in the light of new information, but instead reemerge at subsequent, often seemingly disconnected moments to combine and contend with new assertions. Tracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from “barrenness” to “(in)fertility,” this rhetorical analysis both explicates how language was and is used to establish the concept of infertility and shows the implications these rhetorical constructions continue to have for individuals and the societies in which they live.

Author : Sherman J. Silber
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316093300
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Get Pregnant written by Sherman J. Silber and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete update of a classic. Dr. Silber is the preeminent expert in the field of male and female fertility problems. He has appeared on "Oprah, the "Today show, Good Morning America, ABC's World News Tonight, Nightline, and was featured on Discovery Health's documentary program on infertility, "The Baby Lab, and many other national programs. The media world will eagerly welcome Dr. Silber to discuss the latest developments in infertility treatment.

Author : Rod Michalko
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303639
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Normalcy written by Rod Michalko and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book exemplify ways of questioning our collective relations to normalcy, as such relations affect the lives of both disabled and currently non-disabled people."--Pub. desc.

Author : Kristin J. Wilson
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826503578
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Trying written by Kristin J. Wilson and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One message that comes along with ever-improving fertility treatments and increasing acceptance of single motherhood, older first-time mothers, and same-sex partnerships, is that almost any woman can and should become a mother. The media and many studies focus on infertile and involuntarily childless women who are seeking treatment. They characterize this group as anxious and willing to try anything, even elaborate and financially ruinous high-tech interventions, to achieve a successful pregnancy. But the majority of women who struggle with fertility avoid treatment. The women whose interviews appear in Not Trying belong to this majority. Their attitudes vary and may change as their life circumstances evolve. Some support the prevailing cultural narrative that women are meant to be mothers and refuse to see themselves as childfree by choice. Most of these women, who come from a wider range of social backgrounds than most researchers have studied, experience deep ambivalence about motherhood and non-motherhood, never actually choosing either path. They prefer to let life unfold, an attitude that seems to reduce anxiety about not conforming to social expectations.

Author : Amy D. Propen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351858270
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Communication Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault written by Amy D. Propen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings rhetorical, legal, and professional communication perspectives to the discourse surrounding policy-making efforts within the United States around two types of violent crimes against women: domestic violence and sexual assault. The authors propose that such analysis adds to our understanding of rhetorical concepts such as kairos, risk perception, moral panic, genre analysis, and identity theory. Overall, the goal is to demonstrate how rhetorical, legal, and professional communication perspectives work together to illuminate public discourse and conflict in such complicated and ongoing dilemmas as how to aid victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and how to manage the offenders of such crimes—social and cultural problems that continue to perplex the legal system and the social environment.

Author : Kim Hensley Owens
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334054
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Childbirth written by Kim Hensley Owens and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on medical texts, popular advice books, and online birth plans and birth stories, as well as the results of a childbirth writing survey, Owens considers how women's agency in childbirth is sanctioned, and how it is not. She examines how women's rhetorical choices in writing interact with institutionalized medicine and societal norms. Writing Childbirth reveals the contradictory messages women receive about childbirth, their conflicting expectations about it, and how writing and technology contribute to and reconcile these messages and expectations.

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Total Pages : 1388 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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