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Considering issues such as pain and fertility, and exploring both the language of medical discourse and the silence of personal mystery, she reveals the numerous ways in which giving birth is narrated in the contemporary U.S. Pollock draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored genre.

Table of Contents
One: Origins in Absence Two: Narrative Rites Three: Practicing Pain Four: Secrets/Doubles

Telling Bodies Performing Birth

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 7/14/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780231109154
      978-0231109154
      ISBN-10 0231109156

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      Book Synopsis
      Considering issues such as pain and fertility, and exploring both the language of medical discourse and the silence of personal mystery, she reveals the numerous ways in which giving birth is narrated in the contemporary U.S. Pollock draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored genre.

      Table of Contents
      One: Origins in Absence Two: Narrative Rites Three: Practicing Pain Four: Secrets/Doubles

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