The Political Geographies of Pregnancy

The Political Geographies of Pregnancy
ISBN-10
0252092945
ISBN-13
9780252092947
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2010-10-01
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Laura R. Woliver

Description

As reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of pregnancy are shifting, and the boundaries need to be redrawn, argues Laura R. Woliver. Across a politically charged backdrop of reproductive issues, Woliver exposes strategies that claim to uphold the best interests of children, families, and women but in reality complicate women's struggles to have control over their own bodies. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory and promoting a feminist ethic of care, Woliver looks at the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, new reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of the human genome.

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