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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... lives. They also highlighted the problem of reducing reproductive rights to just the single right of a safe and legal abortion. As law professor Dorothy Roberts pointed out in her celebrated work Killing the Black Body, for women who ...
... lives is obvious, as when judges order women not to procreate or correctional staff refer women who use illicit drugs to a program that pays the women to be sterilized. Other times, as with incarceration, it is less obvious. Prison not ...
... .13 As the control of women's bodies and reproductive lives has become more intrusive and pervasive, I fear it has become invisible and taken for granted. Abortion may be the most hotly debated reproductive right, Introduction 5.
... lives of unborn embryos”) based on technical expertise (“Only we can determine when a pregnant woman's life is in jeopardy”) also prevented other interested parties, such as lawyers, clergy, and women, from challenging doctors' asserted ...
... live where abortion is inaccessible, illegal, or life-threatening. They may lack the resources to feed the children they have, much less a new baby. They may want to be mothers but lack the resources to escape stigma, punishment, or ...
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 |