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Title Fetal subjects, feminist positions / edited by Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennslyvania Press, [1999]
©1999

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 MELB  305.4201 Mor/Fsf  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: The Fetal Imperative / Meredith W. Michaels and Lynn M. Morgan -- Pt. I. Conceiving the Fetus: History and Overview. 1. The Fetus on the "Farther Shore": Toward a History of the Unborn / Barbara Duden. 2. The Emergence of the Fetus / Kathryn Pyne Addelson. 3. Materializing the Fetal Body, Or, What Are Those Corpses Doing in Biology's Basement? / Lynn M. Morgan. 4. Dead Embryos: Feminism in Suspension / Sarah Franklin. 5. Fathers, Mothers, and Fetal Harm: Rethinking Gender Difference and Reproductive Responsibility / Cynthia R. Daniels -- Pt. II. Manipulating the Fetal Image. 6. Operation to the Rescue: Feminist Encounters with Fetal Surgery / Monica J. Casper. 7. Fetal Galaxies: Some Questions About What We See / Meredith W. Michaels. 8. The Traffic in Fetuses / Carol A. Stabile. 9. Minority Unborn / Carol Mason. 10. Irish Trans/national Politics and Locating Fetuses / Laury Oaks -- Pt. III. Of Women and Fetuses
11. "Womb with a View": Script and Stills / Sherry Millner. 12. The Fetal Monster / Ernest Larsen. 13. "I Remember the Day I Shopped for Your Layette": Consumer Goods, Fetuses, and Feminism in the Context of Pregnancy Loss / Linda L. Layne. 14. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-330) and index
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Subject Feminist theory.
Fetus.
Fetus -- Imaging.
Women's rights.
Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Feminism.
Fetus.
Abortion, Induced.
Morals.
Reproduction.
Women's Rights.
Author Morgan, Lynn Marie.
Michaels, Meredith W.
LC no. 99012261
ISBN 0812234960 cloth alkaline paper
081221689X paper