Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/09/2014
Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Countering the commonsensical notion that mandatory insurance coverage functions primarily to relieve the problem of infertility, Britt argues instead that the coverage serves to expose its contours. Britt uses extensive interviews with women undergoing fertility treatments to provide the foundation for her detailed analysis. While her study focuses on the example of infertility, it is also more broadly a commentary on the power of definition to frame experience, on the burdens and responsibilities of belonging to social collectives, and on the ability of rhetorical criticism to interrogate cultural formations.
- ISBN:
- 9780817357900
- 9780817357900
- Category:
- Sociology
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 30-09-2014
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- The University of Alabama Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 328
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x18mm
- Weight:
- 0.34kg
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