Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction
Edited by: Mary M. Lay, Laura J. Gurak, Clare Gravon, and Cynthia Myntti
Table of Contents
Foreward.
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen E. Longino
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rhetoric of Reproductive Technologies
Mary M. Lay, Laura J. Gurak, Clare Gravon, and Cynthia Myntti
Part One: Historical Bases of Reproductive Discourse
Chapter 1: Figuring the Reproductive Woman: The Construction of Professional
Identify in Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery Texts
Jeanette Hearl-Fanning
Chapter 2: Minding the Uterus: C. T. Javert and Psychosomatic Abortion
Kathleen Marie Dixon
Chapter 3: Gym Periods and Monthly Periods: Concepts of Menstruation in American
Physical Education, 1900-1940
Martha H. Verbrugge
Chapter 4: God Willed It! Gynecology at the Checkout Stand: Reproductive Technology
in the Women's Service Magazine, 1977-1996
Chloé Diepenbrock
Part Two: Reproduction, Language, and Medical Models
Chapter 5: Women's Reproductive Choices and the Genetic Model of Medicince
Celeste M. Condit
Chapter 6: Bodies, Minds, and Failures: Images of Women in Infertility Clinics
Laura Shanner
Chapter 7: The Politics of Language in Surgical Contraception
Lyn Turney
Chapter 8: Baby Talk: The Rhetorical Production of Maternal and Fetal Selves
Eugenia Georges and Lisa M. Mitchell
Part Three
Chapter 9: Medical Insurance as Bio-Power: Law and the Normalization of (In)fertility
Elizabeth C. Britt
Chpater 10: The Legal Status of Direct-Entry Midwives in the United States:
Balancing Tradition with Modern Medicine
Mary M. Lay
Chapter 11: Hot Tomalley: Women's Bodies and Environmental Politics in the
State of Maine
Beverly Sauer
Chpater 12: The Construction of Public Health in the FDA Hearings on Silicone
Breat Implants
Mary Thompson
Afterword: Technologies ofthe Exterior, Technologies of the InteriorCan
We Expand the Discourse of Reproductive Studies?
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Contributors
Index