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Telling Bodies Performing Birth: Everyday Narratives of Childbirth
Della Pollock
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Description for Telling Bodies Performing Birth: Everyday Narratives of Childbirth
Hardback. Considering issues such as pain and fertility, and exploring both the language of medical discourse and the silence of personal mystery, she reveals the numerous ways in which giving birth is narrated in the contemporary U.S. Pollock draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored genre. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFHF; JHBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 272.
Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth. Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the contemporary United States. Pollock retells stories about some of ... Read more
Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth. Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the contemporary United States. Pollock retells stories about some of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231109147
SKU
V9780231109147
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About Della Pollock
Della Pollock is associate professor of communication studies and director of the University Program in Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is coeditor of the journal Cultural Studies and editor ofExceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History.
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