Choices Women Make : Agency in Domestic Violence, Assisted Reproduction, and Sex Work /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Showden, Carisa Renae
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Prostitution.
Äggdonationer.
Våld i familjen.
Feministisk teori.
Autonomi.
Kvinnor.
Women > Identity.
Reproductive technology.
Feminist theory.
Family violence.
Autonomy (Psychology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
prostitution.
Sante de la reproduction.
Femmes > Droits.
Reproduction > Innovations.
Violence familiale.
Theorie feministe.
Femmes > Identite.
Reproductive Techniques
Sex Work
Domestic Violence
Reproductive Medicine
Personal Autonomy
Women's Rights
Reproductive health.
Women's rights.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 inherently sensitive and difficult choices--specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work. In Showden's analysis, women's agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deploy.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780816676569

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