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Motherhood lost : a feminist account of pregnancy loss in America /

Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at pregnancy loss in America, reproductive technologies and the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Layne, Linda L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. My Miscarriage Years
  • Ch. 2. Caught in the Middle: Pregnancy Loss at the Turn of the Century
  • Ch. 3. Pregnancy-Loss Support
  • Ch. 4. Challenges to Narratives of Linear Progress
  • Ch. 5. New Reproductive Technologies and the Fetal Subject
  • Ch. 6. "He Was a Real Baby with Baby Things": A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood, and Pregnancy Loss
  • Ch. 7. "True Gifts from God": Paradoxes of Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Enrichment
  • Ch. 8. "Never Such Innocence Again": Irony, Nature, and Technoscience
  • Ch. 9. "I Will Never Forget You": Trauma, Memory, and Moral Identity
  • Ch. 10. Breaking the Silence: A Feminist Agenda for Pregnancy Loss.