Reproductive Health And Maternal Sacrifice

Author : Pam Lowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137472939

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Reproductive Health and Maternal Sacrifice by Pam Lowe Pdf

This book demonstrates that the symbol of maternal sacrifice is the notion that 'proper' women put the welfare of children, whether born, in utero or not conceived, over and above any choices and desires of their own. The idea of maternal sacrifice acts as powerful signifier in judging women's behaviour that goes beyond necessary care for any children. The book traces its presence in various aspects of reproductive health, from contraception to breastfeeding. Pam Lowe shows how although nominally choices are presented to women around reproductive health, maternal sacrifice is used to discipline women into conforming to specific norms, reasserting traditional forms of womanhood. This has significant implications for women's autonomy. Women can resist or reject this disciplinary position when making reproductive decisions, but in doing so, they may be positioned as transgressing and/or need to justify their decisions. The book will be of great interest to scholars of sociology, gender studies and health studies.

Author : Melissa Huerta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793626981

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Representing Latina/x Reproductive Decision-Making by Melissa Huerta Pdf

This book examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts. Close analyses of Teatro Luna, Jane the Virgin, Vida, Quinceañera and Favianna Rodriguez’s artwork serve as case studies offering a refreshing way to visualize, interpret, and hear Latina/x reproductive decisions.

Author : Lynne Attwood,Elisabeth Schimpfössl,Marina Yusupova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319736617

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Gender and Choice after Socialism by Lynne Attwood,Elisabeth Schimpfössl,Marina Yusupova Pdf

The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to be problematic. Personal choice is limited by a range of factors such as a person’s economic situation, class, age, government policies and social expectations, especially regarding gender roles. Furthermore, the notion of free choice is a crucial feature of capitalist ideology, and can be manipulated in the interests of the market. This edited collection explores the complexity of choice in Russia and Ukraine. The contributors explore how the new choices available to people after the collapse of the Soviet Union have interacted with and influenced gender identities and gender, and how choice has become one of the driving forces of class-formation in countries which were, in the Soviet era, supposedly classless. The book will of interest to students and scholars across a range of subjects including gender and sexualities studies, history, sociology and political science.

Author : Kylie Baldwin
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787564855

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Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice by Kylie Baldwin Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explores the experiences of some of the pioneering users of social egg freezing technology in the UK and the USA.

Author : Beth Widmaier Capo,Laura Lazzari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030995300

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The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature by Beth Widmaier Capo,Laura Lazzari Pdf

This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume.

Author : Damien W. Riggs,Jane M. Ussher,Kerry H. Robinson,Shoshana Rosenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781000813050

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Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health by Damien W. Riggs,Jane M. Ussher,Kerry H. Robinson,Shoshana Rosenberg Pdf

Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change. Chapters cover a breadth of topics such as intimacy, sexual violence, reproductive intentions, sexuality education, oncology, and pregnancy, introducing readers to the latest research in the field as well as key emerging concepts. The authors identify core principles for trans reproductive and sexual justice, providing a broad overview of what is currently succeeding and what can be built on going into the future. Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health offers a comprehensive exploration that is essential reading for academics and students in psychology, sociology, gender studies, and related areas, as well as clinicians and policy makers, offering direct implications for professional audiences working in health and social care.

Author : Sydney Calkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 9780520391970

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Abortion Pills Go Global by Sydney Calkin Pdf

"Abortion access has been transformed by medication abortion pills. These pills have made safe abortion possible around the world, even in the most restrictive legal contexts. Abortion Beyond Borders follows these pills as they are moved by feminist activists from India into Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland and the USA. It explores how medication abortion pills and the activists who supply them have changed abortion access, impacted politics, and catalyzed progressive reforms. Abortion Beyond Borders offers an unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement"--

Author : Pam Lowe,Sarah-Jane Page
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839094002

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Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK by Pam Lowe,Sarah-Jane Page Pdf

Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over space.

Author : Miranda R. Waggoner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520963115

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The Zero Trimester by Miranda R. Waggoner Pdf

In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction—even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy care model will reduce risk and ensure better birth outcomes than the prenatal care model. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women’s bodies. The Zero Trimester explores why the task of perfecting pregnancies now takes up a woman’s entire reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Miranda R. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester rose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of women’s lives in the twenty-first century. Waggoner argues that the emergence of the zero trimester is not simply related to medical and health concerns; it also reflects the power of culture and social ideologies to shape both population health imperatives and women’s bodily experiences.

Author : Victoria Boydell,Katharine Dow
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800717350

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Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse by Victoria Boydell,Katharine Dow Pdf

This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work in disciplinary silos, reproductive studies is in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.

Author : Sarah-Jane Page
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031546921

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Abortion and Catholicism in Britain by Sarah-Jane Page Pdf

Author : Erica Millar
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786991331

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Happy Abortions by Erica Millar Pdf

‘A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.’ Sinéad Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment When it comes to abortion, today’s liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging version of what the abortion choice entails and how women experience it. While it would prove highly unpopular to insist that all pregnant women should carry their pregnancy to term, the idea that abortion could or should be a happy experience for women is virtually unspeakable. In this careful and intelligent work, Erica Millar shows how the emotions of abortion are constructed in sharp contrast to the emotional position occupied by motherhood – the unassailable placeholder for women’s happiness. Through an exposition of the cultural and political forces that continue to influence the decisions women make about their pregnancies – forces that are synonymous with the rhetoric of choice – Millar argues for a radical reinterpretation of women’s freedom.

Author : David Ralph
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030586928

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Abortion and Ireland by David Ralph Pdf

This book asks the crucial question of how it came to pass that on the 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a landslide in favour of changing its abortion legislation that, for the previous thirty-five years, had been one of the most restrictive regimes in Europe. The author shows how, alongside traditional campaigning tactics such as street demonstrations, door-to-door canvassing, and the distribution of pro-choice merchandise and information leaflets, a key strategy of pro-choice advocacy groups was to encourage first-person abortion story-sharing by women in their efforts to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which had effectively banned abortion provision in the country. The book argues that a normalizing of abortion talk took place in the lead-up to the referendum, with women speaking publicly in unprecedented numbers about their abortion histories. These women storytellers were mirroring certain pro-choice movements in other contexts, where a new ‘sound it loud, say it proud’ narrative around abortion experiences has emerged as a central contemporary strategy for destigmatizing abortion discourse. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including law, gender studies, sociology, and human geography, will find this book of interest.

Author : Natalie Sappleton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787543614

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Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness by Natalie Sappleton Pdf

While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the phenomenon, united within a feminist conceptual framework.

Author : Sandra Coliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 0870798421

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The Right to Know by Sandra Coliver Pdf

This book documents the massive deprivation of human rights resulting from governmental censorship, manipulation, and control of reproductive health and sexuality information. The introductory chapter applies a human rights perspective to reproductive health to show that women must have full and impartial information to be able to choose services which further their goals rather than governmental policies. Examples of different types of state manipulation are provided, and demographic, biomedical, and reproductive health paradigms of contraceptive delivery programs are described. Chapter 2 identifies the binding obligations imposed on governments by the international principle that women have a right to appropriate reproductive health information. The third chapter provides a global overview of such topics as health expenditures, fertility rates, infertility, literacy and education, infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, child spacing, contraceptive usage, unmet need, abortion, HIV/AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Chapters 4-13 present country reports for Algeria, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, and the US. The country reports reveal the overwhelming need of women to have access to this information and the innumerable ways in which governments control such access. The country reports also describe factors such as religion, culture, tradition, state of development, and influence of foreign donors which have an impact on access to information. Each country report ends with specific recommendations, and the concluding chapter defines seven obligations of national governments imposed by the right to information contained in international law and contains recommendations of ways nongovernmental organizations can use these obligations to lobby governments for improvements.