Body talk : rhetoric, technology, reproduction / edited by Mary M. Lay [and others].

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2000], ©2000.

xiii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Figuring the reproductive woman: the construction of professional identity in eighteenth-century British midwifery texts / Jeanette Herrle-Fanning -- Minding the uterus: C.T. Javert and psychosomatic abortion / Kathleen Marie Dixon -- Gym periods and monthly periods: concepts of menstruation in American physical education, 1900-1940 / Martha H. Verbrugge -- God willed it! Gynecology at the checkout stand: reproductive technology in the women's service magazine, 1977-1996 / Chloé Diepenbrock -- Women's reproductive choices and the genetic model of medicine / Celeste M. Condit --Bodies minds and failures: images of women in infertility clinics / Laura Shanner -- The politics of language in surgical contraception / Lyn Turney -- Baby talk: the rhetorical production of maternal and fetal selves / Eugenia Georges and Lisa M. Mitchell -- Medical insurance as bio-power: law and the normalization of (in)fertility / Elizabeth C. Britt -- The legal status of direct-entry midwives in the United States: balancing tradition with modern medicine / Mary M. Lay -- Hot tomalley: women's bodies and environmental politics in the state of Maine / Bererly Sauer -- The construction of public health in FDA hearings on silicone breast implants / Mary Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.