{"product_id":"infertility-robin-e-jensen-9780271076195","title":"Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous popular and scientific news coverage, Robin Jensen parses the often thin rhetorical divide between moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating explanations for infertility have emerged from seemingly competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways in which old arguments and appeals do not disappear in the light of new information, but instead reemerge at subsequent, often seemingly disconnected moments to combine and contend with new assertions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from \"barrenness\" to \"(in)fertility,\" this rhetorical analysis both explicates how language was and is used to establish the concept of infertility and shows the implications these rhetorical constructions continue to have for individuals and the societies in which they live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin E. Jensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271076194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271076195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Robin E. Jensen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064810942719,"sku":"9780271076195","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34d6a87c-c965-4102-8704-ed47637eee6b.jpg?v=1768671183","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/infertility-robin-e-jensen-9780271076195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}