Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric (eBook)

Searching the Negative Spaces in Histories of Rhetoric

Lydia McDermott (Autor)

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2016
190 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1340-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric uses a feminist disability framework to argue that women’s bodies are understood within a medical framework of pathology directly related to their ability, or inability, to reproduce.

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Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric posits rhetoric and gynecology as sister discourses. While rhetoric has been historically concerned with the regulation of the productive male body, gynecology has been concerned with the discipline of the female reproductive body. Lydia M. McDermott examines these sister discourses by tracing key narrative moments in the development of thought about sexed bodies and about rhetorical discourse, from classical myth and natural philosophy to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century decline of midwifery and the rise of scientific writing on the reproductive body. Liminal Bodies offers a metaphorical method of invention and criticism, ';sonogram,' that emphasizes the voices and bodies that have been left on the margins of the dominant histories of rhetoric.

Autor

Lydia M. McDermott is assistant professor of composition and the director of the Center for Writing and Speaking at Whitman College.

Inhalt

Introduction: Rhetorical Listening to Negative SpacePart I: Echo-Location: Classical ConceptionsChapter 1: Wondering Wombs: Conception ConsumedChapter 2: Echolocation and VentriloquismChapter 3: Ambiguous Forms: Sonogram of a SophistPart II: The Maternal Imagination of SonogramChapter 4: The Mêtic MidwifeChapter 5: Genres of Generation, Reproduction InstructionsChapter 6: The Monstrous Imagination of MêtisConclusion: Reverberations

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2016
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Communication Studies • Health Communication • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1340-9 / 1498513409
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1340-1 / 9781498513401