Amy Koerber is Professor in Communication Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Success in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. Her book Breast or Bottle: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.

“Koerber challenges the view of medical discovery and practice as an ever-ascendant trajectory, invoking instead the philosophical concept of topological time as a nonlinear folding and twisting of expert and popular concepts of biology and behavior. Recommended.”—S. W. Moss Choice

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology2. Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space 3. Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis4. Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology5. Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs6. Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark”7. This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse8. From Hysteria to Hormones NotesBibliographyIndex

Amy Koerber is Professor in Communication Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Success in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. Her book Breast or Bottle: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.

“Koerber challenges the view of medical discovery and practice as an ever-ascendant trajectory, invoking instead the philosophical concept of topological time as a nonlinear folding and twisting of expert and popular concepts of biology and behavior. Recommended.”—S. W. Moss Choice

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology2. Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space 3. Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis4. Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology5. Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs6. Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark”7. This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse8. From Hysteria to Hormones NotesBibliographyIndex

Amy Koerber is Professor in Communication Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Success in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. Her book Breast or Bottle: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.

“Koerber challenges the view of medical discovery and practice as an ever-ascendant trajectory, invoking instead the philosophical concept of topological time as a nonlinear folding and twisting of expert and popular concepts of biology and behavior. Recommended.”—S. W. Moss Choice

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology2. Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space 3. Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis4. Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology5. Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs6. Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark”7. This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse8. From Hysteria to Hormones NotesBibliographyIndex