ISBN:
9780252075971
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (253 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Political Geographies of Pregnancy
DDC:
305.48
Keywords:
Human reproduction ; Political aspects
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Human reproductive technology ; Political aspects
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Pregnancy ; Political aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A vigorous analysis of the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, new reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of the human genome. "[This volume] constructs a coherent account of the meanings of pregnancy in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century, spelling out a basis for just reproductive policies. . . . Neatly reviews many of the major dramas and dilemmas that, thirty years after the federalization of women's 'choice,' continue to bedevil policymakers and ordinary people. But it also moved me, and will move others, to wake up and test its conclusions." -- Rickie Solinger, Women's Review of Books.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Feminist Praxis, Reproductive Powers, and 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 -- 2. 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 -- Conclusion -- 3. The Human Genome Project: Designer Genes -- A Conceptual Shift -- Geneticization and Topographies of Reproductive Power -- Increasing Medicalization -- Eugenic Concerns -- Race, Class, and Genome Power -- Abilities and Diversities -- The "Gay Gene" Quest -- Enhancements and Improvements -- The Mixed Blessing of Knowing -- The Family Impact of Misattributed Paternity -- Diseased Futures -- Reproduction, Parenting, and Abortion -- Impact of 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 -- 4. Abortion Politics: Discourses on Lives -- Revealed History and 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Feminist Praxis, Reproductive Powers, and 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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2. 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""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. The Human Genome Project: Designer Genes""; ""A Conceptual Shift""; ""Geneticization and Topographies of Reproductive Power""; ""Increasing Medicalization""; ""Eugenic Concerns""; ""Race, Class, and Genome Power""; ""Abilities and Diversities""; ""The ""Gay Gene"" Quest""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Enhancements and Improvements""""The Mixed Blessing of Knowing""; ""The Family Impact of Misattributed Paternity""; ""Diseased Futures""; ""Reproduction, Parenting, and Abortion""; ""Impact of Mothers""; ""Economic and Market Exchanges""; ""Human Diversity Genome Project""; ""Social Impact""; ""Breast Cancer Heartbreaks""; ""Ownership and Patenting""; ""Genetic, Intentional, Enhanced Babies""; ""ELSI: Ethics within the Project""; ""Gender, Power, and Bioethics""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Abortion Politics: Discourses on Lives""; ""Revealed History and Political Action""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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: New Frames""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Conclusion""""5. Adoption and Surrogacy: Children as Commodities, Wombs for Rent""; ""Adoption Markets""; ""Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent, Power, Class, and Control""; ""Fragile Power of Mothers""; ""Full Surrogacy""; ""Surrogacy Policy Recommendations""; ""The Patriarchal, Nuclear Family Paradigm""; ""Voices Silenced""; ""Conclusion""; ""6. Social Controls and Reproductive Politics: Punitive Monitoring of Pregnant Women""; ""Framing: Fetus as Patient""; ""Legal and Illegal Drugs and Pregnant Women""; ""Framing/Reframing""; ""Criminalizing Prenatal Care: Whitner v. State of South Carolina""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Coerced and Punitive Contraception""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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