Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions / / Meredith Wilson Michaels, Lynn M. Morgan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Michaels, Meredith Wilson,; Morgan, Lynn M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.) :; 62 illus.

Selected as the "Most Enduring Edited Collection" by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Since Roe v. Wade, there has been increasing public interest in fetuses, in part as a result of effective antiabortion propaganda and in part as a result of developments in medicine and technology. While feminists have begun to take note of the proliferation of fetal images in various media, such as medical journals, magazines, and motion pictures, few have openly addressed the problems that the emergence of the fetal subject poses for feminism. Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions foregrounds feminism's effort to focus on the importance of women's reproductive agency, and at the same time acknowledges the increasing significance of fetal subjects in public discourse and private experience. Essays address the public fascination with the fetal subject and its implications for abortion discourse and feminist commitment to reproductive rights in the United States. Contributors include scholars from fields as diverse as anthropology, communications, political science, sociology, and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Fetal Imperative -- Chapter One. The Fetus on the "Farther Shore" -- Chapter Two. The Emergence of the Fetus -- Chapter Three. Materializing the Fetal Body -- Chapter Four. Dead Embryos -- Chapter Five. Fathers, Mothers, and Fetal Harm -- Chapter Six. Operation to the Rescue -- Chapter Seven. Fetal Galaxies -- Chapter Eight. The Traffic in Fetuses -- Chapter Nine. Minority Unborn -- Chapter Ten. Irish Trans/national Politics and Locating Fetuses -- Chapter Eleven. "Womb with a View" -- Chapter Twelve. The Fetal Monster -- Chapter Thirteen “I Remember the Day I Shopped for Your Layette” -- Chapter Fourteen. Fetal Reflections -- Epilogue: Reflections on Abortion Politics and the Practices Called Person -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index