Reproducing Women
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Reproducing Women
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Author : Yi-Li Wu
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-08-11
Reproducing Women written by Yi-Li Wu and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-11 with History categories.
This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.
Reproducing The Womb
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Author : Alice Elaine Adams
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1994
Reproducing The Womb written by Alice Elaine Adams and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Health & Fitness categories.
Alice E. Adams crafts a subtle new response to the controversies surrounding reproductive freedom and the implications of medical technology. She explores a spectrum of competing visions of childbearing, from misogynistic nightmares of matriarchal control to feminist utopias. Firmly rooted in political reality, Adams offers innovative answers to the questions posed by the intimate interconnections, and the perceived conflicts, between fetus and mother, individual and collective.
Reproducing Persons
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Author : Laura M. Purdy
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Reproducing Persons written by Laura M. Purdy and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Social Science categories.
The essays next look at abortion from a variety of angles. One contends that killing fetuses is not murder; others emphasize the moral importance of access to abortion. Purdy considers the conflicting interests of women and men regarding abortion, and argues against requiring a husband's consent. The book concludes with a consideration of new reproductive technologies and arrangements, including the controversial issue of surrogacy, or contract pregnancy. Throughout, Purdy combines traditional utilitarianism with some of the most powerful insights of contemporary feminist ethics. Her provocative essays create guidelines for approaching new topics and inspire fresh thinking about old ones.
Reproducing Women
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Author : Marilyn Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Reproducing Women written by Marilyn Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Communication in reproductive health categories.
Reproducing Narrative
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Author : Michael Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-20
Reproducing Narrative written by Michael Thomson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-20 with Law categories.
First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses. Recognizing that these dialogues are heavily imprecated in broader social, political and economic discourses it is contended that responses to reproductive issues are influenced and possibly determined, by non-reproductive concerns both at a parochial and more general level. Whilst a number of such influential narratives are recognized the book concentrates on the narratives of gender which appear implicit within the discourses and practices considered. Given the productive nature of discourse and the traditional premising of gender on sexual difference it becomes apparent that the explicit figuring of the female reproductive body becomes a means of realizing the implicit gender narratives within these discourses. Privileged medico-legal discourses become understood as a technology of gender - an important site at which gender is constituted.
Laboring Mothers
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Author : Ellen Malenas Ledoux
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Laboring Mothers written by Ellen Malenas Ledoux and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers. Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.
The Woman In The Body
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Author : Emily Martin
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 1987
The Woman In The Body written by Emily Martin and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Medical categories.
A bold reappraisal of science and society, "The Woman in the Body" explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents unique fieldwork on American culture and uncovers the metaphors of economy and alienation that pervade women's imaging of themselves and their bodies. A new preface examines some of the latest medical ideas about women's reproductive cycles.
Women Writing And The Reproduction Of Culture In Tudor And Stuart Britain
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Author : Mary Burke
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2000-03-01
Women Writing And The Reproduction Of Culture In Tudor And Stuart Britain written by Mary Burke and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Tudor and Stuart Britain, women writers took active roles in negotiating cultural ideas and systems to gain power by participating in politics through writing, shaping the aesthetics of genre, and fashioning feminine gender, despite constraints on women. Through the lens of cultural studies, the authors explore the ways in which women of this era worked to actually create culture. Articles cover five areas: women, writing, and material culture; women as objects and agents in reproducing culture; women's role in producing gender; popular culture and women's pamphlets; and women's bodies as inscriptions of culture.
Reproductive Injustice
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Author : Dana-Ain Davis
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-06-25
Reproductive Injustice written by Dana-Ain Davis and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Social Science categories.
A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income black women are often the “mascots” of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers, fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice advocates, Dána-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an infant’s arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the parents’ experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes—as well as upsetting experiences for parents—but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality.
Black Woman S Burden
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Author : N. Rousseau
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-09-28
Black Woman S Burden written by N. Rousseau and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-28 with History categories.
Black Woman's Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. The myth of the "angry Black woman" has been built over generations through clever rhetoric and oppressive social policy. Here, Rousseau explores the continued impact of labeling and stereotyping on the development of policies that lead to the construction of national, racial, and gender identities for Black women.