At Women’s Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal RightsHarvard University Press, 1996 - 191 páginas Some say the fetus is the “tiniest citizen.” If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas—or, recent cases suggest, battlefields. A cocaine-addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must prove infertility to keep their jobs. A terminally ill woman is forced to undergo a cesarean section. No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman’s relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman’s rights? Are they different from a man’s? And how has the state helped determine the difference? The answers, rigorously pursued throughout this book, give us a clear look into the state’s paradoxical role in gender politics—as both a challenger of injustice and an agent of social control. |
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At Women’s Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights Cynthia R. Daniels Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights Cynthia R. DANIELS,Cynthia R Daniels Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
At Women’s Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights Cynthia R. Daniels Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |