Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions / Meredith Wilson Michaels, Lynn M. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michaels, Meredith Wilson, Editor.

Morgan, Lynn M., Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.

Abortion.

Feminist theory.

Fetus--Imaging.

Fetus.

Human reproduction--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproduction.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.) : 62 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Selected as the "Most Enduring Edited Collection" by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Since Roe v. Wade, there has been increasing public interest in fetuses, in part as a result of effective antiabortion propaganda and in part as a result of developments in medicine and technology. While feminists have begun to take note of the proliferation of fetal images in various media, such as medical journals, magazines, and motion pictures, few have openly addressed the problems that the emergence of the fetal subject poses for feminism. Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions foregrounds feminism's effort to focus on the importance of women's reproductive agency, and at the same time acknowledges the increasing significance of fetal subjects in public discourse and private experience. Essays address the public fascination with the fetal subject and its implications for abortion discourse and feminist commitment to reproductive rights in the United States. Contributors include scholars from fields as diverse as anthropology, communications, political science, sociology, and philosophy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: The Fetal Imperative

Chapter One. The Fetus on the "Farther Shore"

Chapter Two. The Emergence of the Fetus

Chapter Three. Materializing the Fetal Body

Chapter Four. Dead Embryos

Chapter Five. Fathers, Mothers, and Fetal Harm

Chapter Six. Operation to the Rescue

Chapter Seven. Fetal Galaxies

Chapter Eight. The Traffic in Fetuses

Chapter Nine. Minority Unborn

Chapter Ten. Irish Trans/national Politics and Locating Fetuses

Chapter Eleven. "Womb with a View"

Chapter Twelve. The Fetal Monster

Chapter Thirteen “I Remember the Day I Shopped for Your Layette”

Chapter Fourteen. Fetal Reflections

Epilogue: Reflections on Abortion Politics and the Practices Called Person

Bibliography

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781512807561

1512807567

OCLC:

979911609