ISBN:
9781643362946
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9781643362939
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xi, 239 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Adams, Heather Brook Enduring shame
DDC:
306.874/32
Schlagwort(e):
Unmarried mothers
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Teenage pregnancy
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Pregnancy Psychological aspects
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Abortion Psychological aspects
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Women's rights
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth
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United States Social life and customs 20th century
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USA
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Nichteheliche Mutter
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Weibliche Minderjährige
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Schwangerschaft
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Geschichte 1960-1980
Kurzfassung:
"It was not long ago that unmarried pregnant women in the United States hid in maternity homes and relinquished their "illegitimate" children to "more deserving" two-parent families-all in the name of keeping secret shameful pregnancies. Although times and practices have changed, reproductive politics remain a fraught topic and site of injustice, especially for poor women and women of color. Enduring Shame explores two volatile decades in American history-the 1960s and '70s-to trace how shame remained a dynamic and animating emotion in increasingly public interventions into unwed and teen pregnancy.Heather Brook Adams makes a case for recasting this era not as a time of gaining reproductive rights for all but rather as a moment when communicative practices of shame and blame cultivated new forms of injustice. Drawing from personal interviews, archival documents, legal decisions, public policy, journalism, memoirs, and advocacy writing, Adams articulates the rhetorical power of shame to explain how the American public was persuaded to think about reproduction, sexual righteousness, and unwed pregnancy during a time of presumed progress"--
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 215-229
