The political geographies of pregnancy / Laura R. Woliver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woliver, Laura R., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnancy--Political aspects.

Pregnancy.

Human reproduction--Political aspects.

Human reproduction.

Human reproductive technology--Political aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2002.

Summary:

As reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of pregnancy are shifting, and the boundaries need to be redrawn, argues Laura R. Woliver. Across a politically charged backdrop of reproductive issues, Woliver exposes strategies that claim to uphold the best interests of children, families, and women but in reality complicate women's struggles to have control over their own bodies. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory and promoting a feminist ethic of care, Woliver looks at 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.

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 /

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 /

Conclusion: the changing political geographies of motherhood and

Reproduction

Feminist praxis: political challenge / feminist praxis:

Imperfect individuals and connected communities / feminist

Justice / conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-224) and index.

ISBN:

9786613155719

9781283155717

1283155710

9780252092947

0252092945

OCLC:

785781219