<p>“Robin Jensen’s thoughtful and engaging study interrogates a complicated matrix of cultural narratives, medical epistemologies, and gender normativities in order to scrutinize the evolution and constitution of infertility. Her investigation of infertility’s medicalization, shaped by metaphors that simultaneously percolate and lurk at particular historical moments, is compelling in its execution and impressive in its scope. Jensen’s sweeping archive and innovative thesis resist narrative simplicity, offering a valuable contribution to the field of rhetorical studies.”</p><p>—Jeff Bennett, author of <i>Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance</i></p>

<p>“In <i>Infertility</i>, Robin Jensen examines how discourses of infertility change over time, deftly revealing how these discourses do not follow a linear progression but instead shift, overlap, disappear, and re-emerge. Scholars of the rhetoric of science and medicine, medical and health humanities, and science and technology studies will marvel at her insightful, fine-tuned analysis, which beautifully illustrates how <i>medicalized</i> discourses continue to <i>moralize</i>, positioning infertile women as degenerate, noncompliant, or untimely despite ever greater technological and medical advances.”</p><p>—Jordynn Jack, author of <i>Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks</i></p>

<p>“Robin Jensen asks, What is human infertility? How do we understand that ‘involuntary childlessness’ known at different times, and within different ‘rhetorical ecologies,’ as ‘barrenness’ and ‘sterility’? She constructs her answer by weaving a rhetorical-historical account that is informed and engaging, layered and complex: no linear narrative here. The book is a shining example of what critical rhetoricians do, and how and why we do it.”</p><p>—Judy Segal, author of <i>Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine</i></p>