The political geographies of pregnancy [[electronic resource] /] / Laura R. Woliver

• Autore: Woliver Laura R. <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48
• Soggetto topico: Pregnancy - Political aspects; Human reproduction - Political aspects; Human reproductive technology - Political aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The political geographies of pregnancy
• ISBN: 1-283-15571-0; 9786613155719; 0-252-09294-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457543103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II