Reproducing The Womb

Author : Alice Elaine Adams
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0801481619

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Reproducing the Womb by Alice Elaine Adams Pdf

Alice E. Adams crafts a subtle new response to the controversies surrounding reproductive freedom and the implications of medical technology. She explores a spectrum of competing visions of childbearing, from misogynistic nightmares of matriarchal control to feminist utopias. Firmly rooted in political reality, Adams offers innovative answers to the questions posed by the intimate interconnections, and the perceived conflicts, between fetus and mother, individual and collective.

Author : Ellen L.K. Toronto,Joann Ponder,Kristin Davisson,Maurine Kelber Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781315532561

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A Womb of Her Own by Ellen L.K. Toronto,Joann Ponder,Kristin Davisson,Maurine Kelber Kelly Pdf

Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women's identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors explore the ways in which women's sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, and how as the "other", they can be the focus of mistreatment such as rape, sexual slavery, restriction of reproduction rights, and ongoing societal repression. They also explore the cultural definitions of motherhood, and how these set narrow definitions for the acceptable face of motherhood and for being a woman generally

Author : Frida Simonstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031116550

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Womb Politics: A Short History of the Future of Human Reproduction by Frida Simonstein Pdf

This book offers a vision of politics that govern the womb; from antiquity ('be fertile and replenish the earth'), through the ages (hysterectomy, to extirpate women's 'hysteria'), up to the present time (abortion wars; assisted reproduction), and into the future (reprogenetics; the artificial womb). It explores how the womb has served humanity, either tacitly or explicitly, through the ages and examines how women have accepted and still perceive the rules created by men as natural - including the new anti-abortion laws in the USA - because 'that is the way things are.' The book also explores how the merging of assisted reproduction technologies and novel genetic tools (reprogenetics) will pose additional challenges to womb bearers, as all women will be made to reproduce with IVF. What is more, the advent of the artificial womb is in sight; the gender and social implications of this development would be enormous. Certainly not just another organ, the womb has been and remains a powerful tool that cannot be left to the decisions of half of the population. This book engages a wide audience, including women and men, professionals and laypersons who are interested in gender, politics, legislation, women's health, and ethics.

Author : Sophie Waters
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404219502

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The Female Reproductive System by Sophie Waters Pdf

Discusses the female reproductive system, pregnancy, and birth control.

Author : Pinki Virani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fertilization in vitro, Human
ISBN : 0670088722

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Politics of the Womb by Pinki Virani Pdf

Among life's choices is to have children or remain childfree. Yet those who want a child and find themselves unable, live through the trauma of 'infertility'-cruelly attributed as 'their fault'-to undergo the tribulations of assisted reproductive technology. But how safe is aggressive Ivf, invasive Icsi, exploitative ovarian hyper-stimulation and commercial surrogacy? Politics of the Womb proves that there can be broken babies and breaking mothers; it rips away the romanticism around uterus transplants, warns of genetic theft and 'designer babies', and points to the human element being sacrificed, as artificial reproduction uses, reuses and recycles the woman. Pinki Virani combines investigation with analysis to question those who lead the worldwide onslaught on the woman's womb in the name of babies, and squarely confronts what has become the business of baby-making by a chain of suppliers that manufactures on demand. Written in a manner accessible to all, here finally is a path-breaking book which speaks up, in no uncertain terms, for the right to informed choice on responsible reproduction.

Author : Yi-Li Wu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947610

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Reproducing Women by Yi-Li Wu Pdf

This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.

Author : Dion Farquhar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317828136

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The Other Machine by Dion Farquhar Pdf

With technological advances in reproduction no longer confined to the laboratory or involving only the isolated individual, women and men are increasingly resorting to a variety of technologies unheard of a few decades ago to assist them in becoming parents. The public at large, and feminists as a group, are confused and divided over how to view these technologies and over what positions to take on the moral and legal dilemmas they give rise to. Farquhar argues that two perspectives have tended to dominate feminist discussions of these issues. She labels these: "fundamental feminism" and "market liberalism." By linking a theoterical approach with a practical set of issues, Farquhar's The Other Machine provides a rigorous analysis of contemporary feminist debates.

Author : Ann Fullick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : 0431040931

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Pregnancy and Birth by Ann Fullick Pdf

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Author : Mairéad McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199659364

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Reproducing Rome by Mairéad McAuley Pdf

Year of publication in resource is 2016, year publication received is 2015.

Author : Norman John Berrill
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012552603

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The Person in the Womb by Norman John Berrill Pdf

Author : Maureen McTeer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000023023536

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The Tangled Womb by Maureen McTeer Pdf

Author : Lydia McDermott
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498513401

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Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric by Lydia McDermott Pdf

Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric posits rhetoric and gynecology as sister discourses. While rhetoric has been historically concerned with the regulation of the productive male body, gynecology has been concerned with the discipline of the female reproductive body. Lydia M. McDermott examines these sister discourses by tracing key narrative moments in the development of thought about sexed bodies and about rhetorical discourse, from classical myth and natural philosophy to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century decline of midwifery and the rise of scientific writing on the reproductive body. Liminal Bodies offers a metaphorical method of invention and criticism, “sonogram,” that emphasizes the voices and bodies that have been left on the margins of the dominant histories of rhetoric.

Author : John Elkington
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Abnormalities, Human
ISBN : UCSC:32106007655290

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The Poisoned Womb by John Elkington Pdf

Author : Susan Martha Kahn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0822325985

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Reproducing Jews by Susan Martha Kahn Pdf

Explores the debates about new reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.

Author : Megan H. Glick
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781478002598

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Infrahumanisms by Megan H. Glick Pdf

In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. Outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman—a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman—Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. In these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.