{"product_id":"corporal-rhetoric-barbara-schneider-9780817320959","title":"Corporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes determined in 1927 that sterilization was a legitimate means of safeguarding the nation's health, he was asserting the state's right to regulate the production of the national body. His opinion represented a culmination of arguments about reproduction and immigration that had been circulating for years but that intensified during the Progressive Era. Arguments about reproductive and immigration practices surged to the foreground, and tectonic shifts in the conceptual schemes and practices of reproduction in the United States followed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, \u003ci\u003eCorporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse. Barbara Schneider considers how efficiency, the hallmark of scientific management, was raised to a cardinal virtue by its inclusions in the powerful mediums of presidential speeches, national educational policies, and eugenics discourse to reclassify babies, long regarded as gifts, as either valuable assets or defective products. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Schneider shows how the legal system drew upon medicine, scientific management, and the emerging discipline of sociology to restrict women's labor in order to preserve reproductive capacity, categorized by Supreme Court opinions as a public good rather than a private capacity. Throughout, she ties the arguments developed during this era to current debates about mothering rhetorics, reproductive rights, immigration, and conceptions of the nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By weaving together medical research reports, clinical practices, case studies, legal opinions and legislative acts, and the epistemology of scientific management, Schneider illuminates the network that women such as Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Lillian Gilbreth and multiple others negotiated as they sought to give women room to exercise their reproductive capacity. Through her analysis of the machinery of these discourses and the material uptake of their genres in the daily practices of reproductive bodies, Schneider offers a provisional theory of corporal rhetoric that begins to answer the call for a new material theory of the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Schneider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817320954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817320959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022","brand":"Barbara Schneider","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989209317631,"sku":"9780817320959","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d87bf956-5e66-4b3c-9222-26b13aa05f93.jpg?v=1683298200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/corporal-rhetoric-barbara-schneider-9780817320959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}