At women's expense : state power and the politics of fetal rights /

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Some say the fetus is the "tiniest citizen." If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas-or, recent cases suggest, battlefields. A cocaine-addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must prove...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daniels, Cynthia R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Temas:
Fetus > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Pregnant women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Fetus > Legal status, laws, etc.
Pregnant women > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fetal rights, gender difference, and political power
  • Fetal animation: the political and cultural emergence of fetal rights
  • Bodily integrity and forced medical treatment: the case of Angela Carder
  • From protecting the woman to privileging the fetus: the case of Johnson Controls
  • The politics of vengeance: the case of Jennifer Johnson
  • Toward a new body politics.

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