Abstract
This essay applies and tests Michel Foucault's theories about local centers of power and knowledge by rhetorically analyzing a Midwifery Study Advisory Group in Minnesota in 1991–1992. In particular, the dividing practices of traditional midwives and their spokespersons illustrate how knowledge may be produced or suppressed and how a rhetor may become empowered by projecting negative traits upon the “other. “ The essay demonstrates how a group of traditional midwives achieved status within the public sphere and temporarily resisted the surveillance and normalization of state authority.
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