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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... prosecuting some women who use drugs and become pregnant, and by failing to support the efforts of incarcerated women and battered women to rear their children, the law and the criminal justice system establish what a “good woman” or a ...
... prosecutors and defense attorneys, and correctional staff and administrators, often ignore the context in which women's actions take place in favor of assuming it is completely within a woman's power to enter drug treatment or set up a ...
... prosecuted for becoming pregnant and continuing their pregnancies to term. The very fact of these prosecutions suggests that pregnant women are punished twice: once for violating our drug laws and again for transgressing against ...
... prosecutors focused specifically on abortion providers whose practices killed or seriously injured a woman patient ... prosecution or serious punishment suggests an ambivalence toward the practice.18 In spite of abortion's illegality ...
... prosecuting statutory rape) toward monitoring and controlling young women and the social conditions that were considered to be the cause of their behavior.15 During this era, Progressive reformers joined up with public officials ...
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 |