Conceiving Normalcy

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Conceiving Normalcy

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Author : Elizabeth C. Britt
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2001-07-24

Conceiving Normalcy written by Elizabeth C. Britt and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-24 with Business & Economics categories.

This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible 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 finds that the mandate, operating as a technology of normalization, helps to identify the abnormal (the infertile) and to create procedures by which the abnormal can be subjected to reform. In its role in normalizing processes, the mandate is more successful when it sustains, rather than resolves, the distinction between the normal and the abnormal. This distinction is achieved in part by the rhetorical mechanism of the double bind. For the middle-class white women who are primarily served by the mandate, these double binds are created both by the desire for success, control, and order and by adherence to medical models that often frustrate these same desires. The resulting double binds help to create and sustain the tension between fertility and infertility, order and discontinuity, control and chaos, success and failure, tensions that are essential for the process of normalization to continue. 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.

Conceiving Normalcy

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Author : Elizabeth C. Britt
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2014-09-30

Conceiving Normalcy written by Elizabeth C. Britt and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.

Elizabeth A. Britt explores how legal and medical discourses shape the experience of infertility in America. Through rhetorical analysis of court cases and personal narratives, Conceiving Normalcy reveals how women navigate conflicting expectations of motherhood, identity, and legitimacy in a system that often marginalizes their reproductive realities.

The Journal For The Study Of Consciousness

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

The Journal For The Study Of Consciousness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Cognition categories.

Reading And Writing Disability Differently

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Author : Tanya Titchkosky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Reading And Writing Disability Differently written by Tanya Titchkosky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.

Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society. Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media and policy texts reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of problems, as they relate to our understandings of the embodied self. Her goal is to configure disability as something more than a problem, and beyond simply a positive or a negative, and to treat texts on disability as potential sites to examine neo-liberal culture. Titchkosky holds that through an exploration of the potential behind limited representations of disability, we can relate to disability as a meaningful form of resistance to the restricted normative order of contemporary embodiment. Incorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.

Transcultural Aspects Of Psychiatric Art

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Author : Irene Jakab
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

Transcultural Aspects Of Psychiatric Art written by Irene Jakab and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Art categories.

Undressing The Normal Stories Of Schooling From Queer Asian American Youth

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Author : Joan Varney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Undressing The Normal Stories Of Schooling From Queer Asian American Youth written by Joan Varney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.

Genetic Factors In Schizophrenia

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Author : Arnold R. Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Release Date : 1972

Genetic Factors In Schizophrenia written by Arnold R. Kaplan and has been published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Psychology categories.

Feminist Studies

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Feminist Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Electronic journals categories.

Reproductive Toxicology And Infertility

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Author : Anthony R. Scialli
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Release Date : 1993

Reproductive Toxicology And Infertility written by Anthony R. Scialli and has been published by McGraw-Hill Companies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Health & Fitness categories.

One of the most popular areas in toxicology is environmental toxicology & its effects on human fertility. Designed as a clinical reference, this book focuses on both the mechanisms of reproductive failure (male & female) & the clinical techniques for assessing & monitoring the effects of various toxicants on the reproductive process. Section I provides a basic overview of the toxicologic effects of various agents on male & female reproductive physiology & the process of conception. Section II builds on this background & covers the mechanisms of toxicant action, describing the ways in which normal reproduction may become deranged. Section III describes clinical & epidemiological methods by which fertility can be monitored & by which reproductive toxicity might be identified.

Conceiving The Future

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Author : Laura L. Lovett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007

Conceiving The Future written by Laura L. Lovett and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS categories.

Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938