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Author Layne, Linda L

Title Motherhood lost : a feminist account of pregnancy loss in America / by Linda L. Layne
Published New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations
Contents Ch. 1. My Miscarriage Years -- Ch. 2. Caught in the Middle: Pregnancy Loss at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 3. Pregnancy-Loss Support -- Ch. 4. Challenges to Narratives of Linear Progress -- Ch. 5. New Reproductive Technologies and the Fetal Subject -- Ch. 6. "He Was a Real Baby with Baby Things": A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood, and Pregnancy Loss -- Ch. 7. "True Gifts from God": Paradoxes of Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Enrichment -- Ch. 8. "Never Such Innocence Again": Irony, Nature, and Technoscience -- Ch. 9. "I Will Never Forget You": Trauma, Memory, and Moral Identity -- Ch. 10. Breaking the Silence: A Feminist Agenda for Pregnancy Loss
Summary Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at pregnancy loss in America, reproductive technologies and the cultural responses surrounding miscarriage. Examining both support groups and the rituals they create to help couples through loss, her analysis offers valuable insight on how material culture contributes to conceptions of personhood. A fascinating examination, Motherhood Lost is also a provocative challenge to feminists and other activists to increase awareness and provide necessary support for this often hidden but critically important topic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-345) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motherhood -- United States
Pregnancy -- Complications -- United States
Fetal death -- United States
Feminism.
Fetal death.
Self-help groups.
Abortion, Spontaneous -- psychology
Feminism
Fetal Death
Maternal-Fetal Relations -- psychology
Self-Help Groups
feminism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Self-help groups
Feminism
Fetal death
Motherhood
Pregnancy -- Complications
Zwangerschap.
Spontane abortus.
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002021336
ISBN 9781135222239
1135222231