Conceiving normalcy : rhetoric, law, and the double binds of infertility / Elizabeth C. Britt.

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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pursuing Normalcy; 1. Defining Infertility; 2. Insuring (In)Fertility; 3. Success and Failure; 4. Order and Discontinuity; 5. Control and Constraint; Epilogue: The Cultural Work of the Double Bind; Appendix A: Text of the Massachusetts Infertility Insurance Mandate; Appendix B: Legislative Information; Appendix C: Research Methods; Appendix D: Interview Participants; Notes; Glossary; Works Cited; Index.

This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible. 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 expose its contours. Britt finds that the mandat.

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