Conceiving Normalcy
Subtitle: Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: July 24, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780817310981
Subjects: Cultural studies; Infertility & fertilization; Insurance law; Rhetoric; Medical / Nursing; Insurance, Health; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Medical / Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Infertility; Ethnic Studies - General; Human reproductive technology; Law and legislation; Massachusetts; Social aspects
Description: "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 outline 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."--BOOK JACKET.