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Autore |
Woliver Laura R. <1954-> |
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Titolo |
The political geographies of pregnancy [[electronic resource] /] / Laura R. Woliver |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2002 |
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1-283-15571-0 |
9786613155719 |
0-252-09294-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pregnancy - Political aspects |
Human reproduction - Political aspects |
Human reproductive technology - Political aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-224) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Feminist praxis, reproductive powers, medical models -- Praxis, approach, method / shifting powers in women's -- Reproduction / reproductive frames / unmet needs taken out of -- Context / feminist analysis of modern reproduction / women's -- Struggles for reproductive agency / controversial, heartfelt, -- Reproductive politics / additional voices and experiences / -- Defiant women / the plan of the book -- New reproductive technologies: medicalizations of pregnancy, -- Birth, reproduction, and infertility -- Standards of care / peripheral women / prenatal screening / -- International "choices" / sex selection reproductive -- Technologies' impact on abortion politics / cultural shifts / -- Conclusions -- The human genome project: designer genes -- A conceptual shift / geneticization, topographies of -- Reproductive power / increasing medicalization / eugenic -- Concerns / race, class, genome power / abilities, diversities -- / the "gay gene" quest / enhancements and improvements / the -- Mixed blessing of knowing / family impact / diseased futures / -- Reproduction, parenting, abortion / impact on mothers / -- Economic and market exchanges / human diversity genome project -- / social |
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impact / breast cancer heartbreaks / ownership and -- Patenting / genetic, intentional, enhanced babies / elsi / -- Gender, power, and bioethics / conclusion -- Abortion politics: discourses on lives -- Revealed history, political action / subversive behaviors / -- Telling women's stories / telling fetuses stories / roe's -- Progress and limitations / abortion, women's praxis of the -- Ethic of care / abortion politics in local communities / -- Social movements, abortion, and culture wars / the context for -- Urban abortion battles / greenville and columbia, south -- Carolina / the grass-roots issue context / partial-birth, -- Late-term abortion ban / a national conflagration negotiated -- Locally one day at a time / interest group representations of -- Reproductive politics / abortion politics / conclusions -- Adoption and surrogacy: children as commodities, wombs for -- Rent -- Adoption markets / surrogacy / fragile power of mothers / full -- Surrogacy / surrogacy policy recommendations / the -- Patriarchal, nuclear family paradigm / voices silenced / -- Conclusion -- Social controls and reproductive politics: punitive monitoring -- Of pregnant women -- Framing / legal and illegal drugs and pregnant women / -- Framing/reframing / criminalizing prenatal care / coerced and -- Punitive contraception / punitive monitoring and control / -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: the changing political geographies of motherhood and -- Reproduction -- Feminist praxis: political challenge / feminist praxis: -- Imperfect individuals and connected communities / feminist -- Justice / conclusion. |
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