Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work / Carisa R. Showden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Showden, Carisa Renae.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Identity.

Women.

Autonomy (Psychology).

Feminist theory.

Family violence.

Reproductive technology.

Prostitution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women'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

Contents:

Conceiving 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4609-4

0-8166-7656-9

OCLC:

756484550