Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1999

Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions

Edited by: Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith Wilson Michaels

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807561

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About this book

This timely volume provides scholars and reproductive rights activists a forum for dialogue about fetuses without conceding to a moral or political agenda that would sanctify them at women's expense.

Author / Editor information

Lynn M. Morgan is the Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica. Meredith W. Michaels is Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Smith College. She has coauthored several books, including Thirteen Questions in Ethics.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: The Fetal Imperative Meredith W. Michaels and Lynn M. Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Conceiving the Fetus: History and Overview
Chapter One. The Fetus on the "Farther Shore" Toward a History of the Unborn Barbara Duden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter Two. The Emergence of the Fetus Kathryn Pyne Addelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Chapter Three. Materializing the Fetal Body Or, What Are Those Corpses Doing in Biology's Basement? Lynn M. Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter Four. Dead Embryos Feminism in Suspension Sarah Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter Five. Fathers, Mothers, and Fetal Harm Rethinking Gender Difference and Reproductive Responsibility Cynthia R. Daniels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part II: Manipulating the Fetal Image
Chapter Six. Operation to the Rescue Feminist Encounters with Fetal Surgery Monica J. Casper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter Seven. Fetal Galaxies Some Questions About What We See Meredith W. Michaels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter Eight. The Traffic in Fetuses Carol A. Stabile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter Nine. Minority Unborn Carol Mason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter Ten. Irish Trans/national Politics and Locating Fetuses Laury Oaks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Part III: Of Women and Fetuses
Chapter Eleven. "Womb with a View" Script and Stills Sherry Millner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter Twelve. The Fetal Monster Ernest Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Chapter Thirteen “I Remember the Day I Shopped for Your Layette” Consumer Goods, Fetuses, and Feminism in the Context of Pregnancy Loss Linda L. Layne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Chapter Fourteen. Fetal Reflections Confessions of Two Feminist Anthropologists as Mutual Informants Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Epilogue: Reflections on Abortion Politics and the Practices Called Person Valerie Hartouni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 62 illus.
Keywords: Anthropology; Public Policy; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics; Human Rights; Law

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512807561