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Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work /

Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inhe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Showden, Carisa Renae
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conceiving agency: autonomy, freedom, and the creation of the embodied subject
  • Should I stay or should I go?: intimate partner violence and the agency in "victim"
  • Mum's the word: assisted reproduction and the ideology of motherhood
  • Working it: prostitution and the social construction of sexual desire
  • Agency and feminist politics: the role of democratic coalitions.