Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences) - Softcover

Lay, Mary M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299167941 ISBN 13: 9780299167943

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000

Synopsis

In recent decades, human reproduction has been transformed in ways never imagined in 1900; new methods of contraception, treatments for fertility and sexual dysfunction, and new diagnostic tools have rapidly become an integral part of our culture and discourse. Body Talk explores the rhetoric of reproductive technology throughout the twentieth century, examining the ways discourse about these technologies has shaped thinking about reproduction and women’s bodies, framed public policy, and empowered or marginalized points of view.
The chapters in Body Talk delve into such varied topics as the ownership and control of knowledge about birth, societal definitions of normality and pathology, definitions of the self, issues regarding granting rights as citizens to fetuses, the rights of mothers, and views about the relationship between technology and religion.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299167941
• ISBN 13: 9780299167943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338