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Women As Wombs


Women As Wombs
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Author : Janice G. Raymond
language : en
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Release Date : 1993

Women As Wombs written by Janice G. Raymond and has been published by Harper San Francisco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Human reproductive technology categories.


Raymond argues that high-tech reproductive technologies violate the integrety of women's bodies, perpetuate an international trafficking in children and prostitution, and are a threat to women's basic human rights.



Wombs With A View


Wombs With A View
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Author : Lawrence D. Longo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-12

Wombs With A View written by Lawrence D. Longo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-12 with Medical categories.


The volume provides an archive of some of the most beautiful illustrations ever made of the gravid uterus with fetus and placenta, which will serve future generations of investigators, educators, and students of reproduction. The approximately two hundred figures from over one hundred volumes included are from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century. For each author whose work is depicted in this volume, we have used the first edition or first illustrated edition. In the commentary, each volume and illustration is placed in its historical perspective, noting both the significance of that image, but also some background on the life and work of the author. For most of the works cited, there are additional references for the reader who may wish to explore these in greater depth. This volume is a unique collection not only of these historical images, but also their place in the development of scientific study.



The Wandering Womb


The Wandering Womb
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Author : Lana Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

The Wandering Womb written by Lana Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.


A provocative tour through religious, medical, and social history, "The Wandering Womb" pinpoints the humorous, outrageous, and hair-raising beliefs, practices, and longstanding falsehoods about women which have permeated human culture. Illustrations.



Wasted Wombs


Wasted Wombs
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Author : Erica van der Sijpt
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-27

Wasted Wombs written by Erica van der Sijpt and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with Political Science categories.


Central to this book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different "reproductive interruptions": miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility. Rather than consider these events as inherently dissimilar as women do in Western countries, the Gbigbil women of eastern Cameroon see them all as instances of "wasted wombs" that leave their reproductive trajectories hanging in the balance. The women must navigate this uncertainty while negotiating their social positions, aspirations for the future, and the current workings of their bodies. Providing an intimate look into these processes, Wasted Wombs shows how Gbigbil women constantly shift their interpretations of when a pregnancy starts, what it contains, and what is lost in case of a reproductive interruption, in contrast to Western conceptions of fertility and loss. Depending on the context and on their life aspirations—be it marriage and motherhood, or an educational trajectory and employment, or profitable sexual affairs with so-called "big fish"—women negotiate and manipulate the meanings and effects of reproductive interruptions. Paradoxically, they often do so while portraying themselves as powerless. Wasted Wombs carefully analyzes such tactics in relation to the various social predicaments that emerge around reproductive interruptions, as well as the capricious workings of women's physical bodies.



Reproducing The Womb


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.



Wombs And Alien Spirits


Wombs And Alien Spirits
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Author : Janice Boddy
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1989-12-01

Wombs And Alien Spirits written by Janice Boddy and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-12-01 with Social Science categories.


Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village in northern Sudan, Wombs and Alien Spirits explores the zâr cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers. Through the woman, the spirit makes demands upon her husband and family and makes provocative comments on village issues, such as the increasing influence of formal Islam or encroaching Western economic domination. In accommodating the spirits, the women are able metaphorically to reformulate everyday discourse to portray consciousness of their own subordination. Janice Boddy examines the moral universe of the village, discussing female circumcision, personhood, kinship, and bodily integrity, then describes the workings of the cult and the effect of possession on the lives of men as well as women. She suggests that spirit possession is a feminist discourse, though a veiled and allegorical one, on women's objectification and subordination. Additionally, the spirit world acts as a foil for village life in the context of rapid historical change and as such provides a focus for cultural resistance that is particularly, though not exclusively, relevant to women.



Wombs The Tale Of Four Foetuses


Wombs The Tale Of Four Foetuses
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Author : Beba Papakyriakou
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-09-29

Wombs The Tale Of Four Foetuses written by Beba Papakyriakou and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-29 with categories.


Four foetuses - one Jewish, one English, two Mexicans; three wombs; much reacting to and commenting on everything taking place inside - and outside - the womb, including tidal waves in the womb, travels to the Far East, penis envy at the cricket, being attacked by bees, heavy breathing, and frogs legs.



Wombs In Labor


Wombs In Labor
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Author : Amrita Pande
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-30

Wombs In Labor written by Amrita Pande and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Social Science categories.


Surrogacy is IndiaÕs new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of IndiaÕs surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, PandeÕs research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of IndiaÕs larger labor system. PandeÕs interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of IndiaÕs surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. Pande instead advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.



Womb


Womb
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Author : Leah Hazard
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2024-03-07

Womb written by Leah Hazard and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-07 with Health & Fitness categories.




Jesus In Our Wombs


Jesus In Our Wombs
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Author : Rebecca J. Lester
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005

Jesus In Our Wombs written by Rebecca J. Lester 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 2005 with Psychology categories.


In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants--young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God. Gracefully written, finely textured, and theoretically rigorous, this book considers how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an altered experience of their own female bodies, a transformation they view as a political stance against modernity. Lester explains that the Postulants work toward what they see as an "authentic" femininity--one that has been eclipsed by the values of modern society. The outcome of this process has political as well as personal consequences. The Sisters learn to understand their very intimate experiences of "the Call"--and their choices in answering it--as politically relevant declarations of self. Readers become intimately acquainted with the personalities, family backgrounds, friendships, and aspirations of the Postulants as Lester relates the practices and experiences of their daily lives. Combining compassionate, engaged ethnography with an incisive and provocative theoretical analysis of embodied selves, Jesus in Our Wombs delivers a profound analysis of what Lester calls the convent's "technology of embodiment" on multiple levels--from the phenomenological to the political.