Bøker av Barbara Schneider

Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.

Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects-one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing-carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Barbara Schneider.

The best-selling author of Flow and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers.