Invisible Labours : The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England / Aimee Louise Middlemiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middlemiss, Aimee Louise, Author.

he Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Envi, Economic and Social Research Council & t, Author.

Contributor:

Economic and Social Research Council & the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, Funder.

Series:

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives Series

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 54.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Social aspects--England.

Abortion.

Fetus--Legal status, laws, etc--England.

Fetus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Aimee Louise Middlemiss is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include reproduction, death, personhood, kinship, embodiment, and gender. Aimee Louise Middlemiss is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include reproduction, death, personhood, kinship, embodiment, and gender.

Summary:

Tracing women's experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less 'real' or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labours describes the reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then understand their pregnancy through kinship with the unborn baby.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface. Talking and Writing about Pregnancy Loss

Introduction. Invisible Labours

Part I. The Consequences of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss

Chapter 1. 'You Don't Have a Choice, You Have to Do It': Diagnosis of the Foetal Body and the Determination of Healthcare Trajectories for Pregnant Women

Chapter 2. 'They're Not Supposed to Deal with This Kind of Thing': Ontological Boundary Work, Discipline and Obstetric Violence

Chapter 3. What Counts as a Baby and Who Counts as a Mother? Civil Registration and Ontological Politics

Chapter 4. Pregnancy Remains, a Baby or the Corpse of a Child? Governance Classifications of the Dead Foetal Body

Part II. Disruption and Resistance in Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss

Chapter 5. 'It Wasn't All a Figment of My Imagination': Ontological Disruption and Embodiment

Chapter 6. 'I Wanted People to Know that They Were My Babies': Kinship as an Ontology of Resistance

Conclusion. Making Visible the Labours of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss

Acknowledgements

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80539-211-5

OCLC:

1411840130