03050nam 2200709Ia 450 991045759980332120200520144314.01-4529-4609-40-8166-7656-9(CKB)2550000000049881(EBL)784152(OCoLC)756484550(SSID)ssj0000535006(PQKBManifestationID)11332202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535006(PQKBWorkID)10520944(PQKB)10258372(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177961(MiAaPQ)EBC784152(OCoLC)769187603(MdBmJHUP)muse29896(Au-PeEL)EBL784152(CaPaEBR)ebr10502047(CaONFJC)MIL525769(EXLCZ)99255000000004988120100802d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChoices women make[electronic resource] agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work /Carisa R. ShowdenMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20111 online resource (306 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5596-0 0-8166-5595-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Conceiving agency: autonomy, freedom, and the creation of the embodied subject -- Should I stay or should I go?: intimate partner violence and the agency in "victim" -- Mum's the word: assisted reproduction and the ideology of motherhood -- Working it: prostitution and the social construction of sexual desire -- Agency and feminist politics: the role of democratic coalitions.Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices--specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work. In Showden's analysis, women's agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deployWomenIdentityAutonomy (Psychology)Feminist theoryFamily violenceReproductive technologyProstitutionElectronic books.WomenIdentity.Autonomy (Psychology)Feminist theory.Family violence.Reproductive technology.Prostitution.305.4201Showden Carisa Renae883194MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457599803321Choices women make1972853UNINA