Corporal rhetoric: regulating reproduction in the progressive era
Auteur :
Schneider, Barbara
Éditeur :
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN :
9780817320959
Date de publication :
3 août 2021
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,4 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
545 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.