Factual and reality television shows that depict childbirth are both commercially successful
and controversial. Social debate focuses on the potential implications for women's …

Through a rhetorical analysis of Romper's YouTube series Doula Diaries, I demonstrate how
the reproductive justice framework helps illuminate the need for an intersectional approach …

The coronavirus pandemic has inundated the globe with discussions of time. Incubation
periods, contagion intervals, exponential growth curves, hospitalization timelines, belated …

Early Motherhood in Digital Societies offers a nuanced understanding of what the digital turn
has meant for new mothers in an intense and critical period before and after they have a …

This article explores themes of crisis, care, and vulnerability in the 2022 BBC series This is
Going to Hurt. Arguing that the series is significant within the genre of medical-themed …

Though persistent failure of clinical trials poses a challenge for multiple conditions, traumatic
brain injury (TBI) is especially difficult to study because of its heterogeneity, complexity …

Control of time is critical to the maintenance of settler colonial states. In the United States,
which relies on linear conceptions of time, time is treated as moving forward, which implies a …

Abstract This dissertation analyzes Extinction Rebellion, a radical social movement
organization committed to averting social collapse from climate change. Extinction Rebellion …

As public efforts to prevent maternal death in the US intensify, racial disparities have
become particularly salient—Black women and birthing people are 2-3 times more likely to …

Abstract “Accumulating Character” develops a theoretical framework that highlights the
rhetorical and interrelated workings of character and time. In rhetorical scholarship …