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200 10$aChoices women make$b[electronic resource] $eagency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work /$fCarisa R. Showden
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (306 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aConceiving 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.
330   $aWomen's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices--specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work. In Showden's analysis, women's agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deploy
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615  0$aReproductive technology.
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