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The political geographies of pregnancy / Laura R. Woliver

Author
Woliver, Laura R., 1954-
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
x, 238 ; 24 cm

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Contents
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 -- Conclusion -- 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 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 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Conclusion : the changing political geographies of motherhood and reproduction. Feminist praxis : political challenge -- Feminist praxis : imperfect individuals and connected communities -- Feminist justice -- Conclusion.
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ISBN
0252027787 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (171-224) and index.
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