LEADER 04357nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910455400103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03016-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674030169 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787087 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140640 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10013077 035 $a(PQKB)10804715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314270 035 $a(OCoLC)923109874 035 $a(DE-B1597)574335 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674030169 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787087 100 $a19930405d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAt women's expense$b[electronic resource] $estate power and the politics of fetal rights /$fCynthia R. Daniels 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1993 215 $a183 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05043-6 311 $a0-674-05044-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [151]-173) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Fetal Rights, Gender Difference, and Political Power -- $t1 Fetal Animation: The Political and Cultural Emergence of Fetal Rights -- $t2 Bodily Integrity and Forced Medical Treatment: The Case of Angela Carder -- $t3 From Protecting the Woman to Privileging the Fetus: The Case of Johnson Controls -- $t4 The Politics of Vengeance: The Case of Jennifer Johnson -- $t5 Toward a New Body Politics -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aSome say the fetus is the "tiniest citizen." If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas-or, recent cases suggest, battlefields. A cocaine-addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must prove infertility to keep their jobs. A terminally ill woman is forced to undergo a cesarean section. No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights? Are they different from a man's? And how has the state helped determine the difference? The answers, rigorously pursued throughout this book, give us a clear look into the state's paradoxical role in gender politics-as both a challenger of injustice and an agent of social control. In benchmark legal cases concerned with forced medical treatment, fetal protectionism in the workplace, and drug and alcohol use and abuse, Daniels shows us state power at work in the struggle between fetal rights and women's rights. These cases raise critical questions about the impact of gender on women's standing as citizens, and about the relationship between state power and gender inequality. Fully appreciating the difficulties of each case, the author probes the subtleties of various positions and their implications for a deeper understanding of how a woman's reproductive capability affects her relationship to state power. In her analysis, the need to defend women's right to self-sovereignty becomes clear, but so does the need to define further the very concepts of self-sovereignty and privacy. The intensity of the debate over fetal rights suggests the depth of the current gender crisis and the force of the feelings of social dislocation generated by reproductive politics. Breaking through the public mythology that clouds these debates, At Women's Expense makes a hopeful beginning toward liberating woman's body within the body politic. 606 $aFetus$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aPregnant women$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFetus$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aPregnant women$xLegal status, laws, etc. 676 $a342.73/0878 676 $a347.302878 700 $aDaniels$b Cynthia R$0729776 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455400103321 996 $aAt women's expense$91438199 997 $aUNINA