Author: Lay, Mary M.
Title: The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Gender, Knowledge, and Power
Description: New Brunswick [NJ], Rutgers University Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x, 239 pp. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: The Current Debate Over Direct-Entry Midwifery in the United States; Rhetorical Analysis & the Midwifery Debates; The Rhetorical History of Midwifery; The Minnesota Midwifery Study Advisory Group: Professional Jurisdictions & Boundary Spanning; Licensing Rules & Regulations: Normalizing the Practice of Midwifery; Jurisdictional Boundaries: Claiming Authority Over Scientific Discourse & Knowledge; Issues of Gender & Power: The Rhetoric of Direct-Entry Midwifery; Appendices.

Keywords: Sociology of Medicine, American Midwifery, Midwives, Gender, Rhetoric, Minnesota, United States, Legal, Political