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Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric : Searching the Negative Spaces in Histories of Rhetoric.

McDermott, Lydia.

Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric : Searching the Negative Spaces in Histories of Rhetoric. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (183 pages)

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I: Echolocation: Classical Conceptions -- Chapter One: Wandering Wombs -- Chapter Two: Echolocation and Ventriloquism -- Chapter Three: Ambiguous Forms -- II: The Maternal Imagination of Sonogram -- Chapter Four: The MĂȘtic Midwife -- Chapter Five: Genres of Generation -- Chapter Six: The Monstrous Imagination of MĂȘtis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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.

9781498513401


Human reproduction.


Electronic books.

HQ1236 -- .M378 2016eb

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