Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in AmericaNYU Press, 2008 M11 1 - 288 páginas Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section |
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... fetus as an independent “victim” with distinct (and sometimes competing) legal rights from the woman herself. Here I also examine cases in which drug-using women have been arrested and prosecuted for becoming pregnant and continuing ...
... fetuses,” Rachel Roth observes in Making Women Pay, “without being given the resources they need to do so, and then penalized for falling short.”75 A tendency also exists to treat women as being irresponsible decision makers. But women ...
... fetus or a child from harm. In July 2003, a Michigan family court judge ordered a woman to submit to a medically verifiable method of birth control in an abuse and neglect proceeding regarding her two children. The judge asserted that ...
... fetus.101 Theoretically, the regulation of virtually any action (e.g., walking on an icy sidewalk, getting into a car with a reckless driver, getting cash from an ATM after dark) could be justified by citing the state interest, 48 ...
... abrogates pregnant women's decision-making power by privileging the interests of her physician, the state, and the fetus over her own. This has a significant impact, not only on women's access to abortion but also 52 “Back-Alley Butchers”
Contenido
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Bearing | 93 |
Mothering | 137 |
Being | 182 |
Notes | 191 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 307 |
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Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |