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 Mêtic Midwife -- Chapter Five: Genres of Generation -- Chapter Six: The Monstrous Imagination of Mêtis -- 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.