Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term by Robin E. Jensen
By Robin E. Jensen
This ebook explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that experience outlined the which means of infertility within the smooth historical past of the U.S. and Europe.
Throughout the final century, the lack of ladies to conceive teenagers has been defined via discrepant perspectives: that ladies are separately culpable for his or her personal reproductive illnesses, or that they require the intervention of health workers to right abnormalities. utilizing doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous renowned and medical information insurance, Robin Jensen parses the usually skinny rhetorical divide among moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating motives for infertility have emerged from probably competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways that previous arguments and appeals don't disappear within the mild of latest details, yet in its place reemerge at next, usually possible disconnected moments to mix and take care of new assertions.
Tracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from “barrenness” to “(in)fertility,” this rhetorical research either explicates how language was once and is used to set up the idea that of infertility and indicates the results those rhetorical structures proceed to have for people and the societies during which they live.
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