Stop Saying Snip!

The Rhetoric of Vasectomy

Jenna Vinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2026
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
9781978843592 (ISBN)

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In the U.S. the most common contraceptive methods rely on women’s time, labor, and vulnerability to risk. Comparatively few people rely on vasectomies as a means of preventing pregnancies. Something is happening rhetorically—through meaning-making symbols and the material practices they manifest—that sustains a collective disinterest in vasectomies. Drawing from her feminist rhetorical study of 37 television and film representations, health insurance policies, and interviews with 17 people who have experienced vasectomy, Jenna Vinson surfaces barriers to vasectomy uptake, including problematic tropes and practices that keep vasectomy unappealing, out-of-mind, and inaccessible. Stop Saying Snip! also illustrates tactics and circumstances that lead people to get a vasectomy, sharing real vasectomy stories and showing that women often play an important (and until now unheeded or pathologized) role in this communication process. This book intervenes in the misogynistic cultural expectation that it is women’s responsibility to endure the pain, labor, and risks of managing fertility by identifying the rhetorics that make men’s reproductive bodies seem unnatural sites for pregnancy prevention work. Fostering a persuasive vision of vasectomy is an urgent project that contributes to the movement toward reproductive justice.

Jenna Vinson is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the author of Embodying the Problem: The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother.

Preface
1 Introduction
Albert’s Story
2 Insuring (Few) Vasectomies: The Rhetorical Force of Health Insurance
James’s and Henry’s Stories
3 Vicious Visions of Vasectomy: Snips, Threats to “Manhood,” & the Pedagogy of Fear
Bob’s and Frank’s Stories
4 Obstacles to Telling Personal Vasectomy Stories
Dillon’s Story
5 Women’s (Rhetorical) Work to Facilitate Vasectomies
Rimi’s and Winifred’s Stories
Conclusion: A Call to Reconsider Protest Rhetorics and Vasectomy

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	7 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781978843592 / 9781978843592
Zustand	Neuware