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Title Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions / edited by Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 345 pages): illustrations
Contents Introduction: the fetal imperative / Meredith W. Michaels and Lynn M. Morgan. -- The fetus on the "farther shore": towards a history of the unborn / Barbara Duden. -- The emergence of the fetus / Kathryn Pyne Addelson. -- Materializing the fetal body, or, what are those corpses doing in biology's basement? / Lynn M. Morgan. -- Dead embryos: feminism in suspension / Sarah Franklin. -- Fathers, mothers, and fetal harm: rethinking gender difference and reproductive responsibility / Cynthia R. Daniels. -- Operation to the rescue: feminist encounters with fetal surgery / Monica J. Casper. -- Fetal galaxies: some questions about what we see / Meredith W. Michaels. -- The traffic in fetuses / Carol A. Stabile. -- Minority unborn / Carol Mason. -- Irish trans/national politics and locating fetuses / Loury Oaks. -- "Womb with a view": script and stills / Sherry Millner. -- The fetal monster / Ernest Larsen. -- "I remember the day I shopped for your Layette": consumer goods, fetuses, and feminism in the context of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne. -- Fetal reflections: confessions of two feminist anthropologists as mutual informants / Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp. -- Epilogue: reflections on abortion politics and the practices called person / Valerie Hartouni
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
Analysis Feminist theory
Fetus
Fetus -- Imaging
Womeǹs rights
Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Feminist theory.
Fetus -- Imaging.
Women's rights.
Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Feminism.
Fetus.
Abortion.
Feminism
Fetus
Abortion, Induced
Morals
Reproduction
Women's Rights
Abortion, Criminal
Abortion, Legal
feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
Feminist theory
Fetus -- Imaging
Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects
Women's rights
Pränatale Entwicklung
Feminismus
Genre/Form Essays.
Form Electronic book
Author Morgan, Lynn Marie. editor.
Michaels, Meredith W., editor.
Morgan, Lynn M
LC no. 99012261
ISBN 9781512807561
1512807567