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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.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Preconceptions
  • Chapter 2. The Virtue of Efficiency
  • Chapter 3. Physicians Who Are Qualified; Women Who Are Not
  • Chapter 4. Margaret Sanger: The Performance of Polemic
  • Chapter 5. The Tender Cover of the Law
  • Chapter 6. The Children's Bureau: Into the Care of the State
  • Chapter 7. Lillian Gilbreth: The Engineer of Motherhood
  • Chapter 8. Consequences
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

    Corporal Rhetoric

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        Publisher The University of Alabama Press
        Published 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN-13 9780817320959
        978-0817320959
        ISBN-10 0817320954
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        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.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction
        • Chapter 1. Preconceptions
        • Chapter 2. The Virtue of Efficiency
        • Chapter 3. Physicians Who Are Qualified; Women Who Are Not
        • Chapter 4. Margaret Sanger: The Performance of Polemic
        • Chapter 5. The Tender Cover of the Law
        • Chapter 6. The Children's Bureau: Into the Care of the State
        • Chapter 7. Lillian Gilbreth: The Engineer of Motherhood
        • Chapter 8. Consequences
        • Notes
        • Works Cited
        • Index

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