Corporal Rhetoric - 9780817320959

Corporal RhetoricRegulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era\nAuthor(s): Barbara Schneider\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817320959, 978-0817320959\nSynopsis\nExamines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction\n\n 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.\n Drawing on feminist historio.