Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America

ISBN-13: 9780415911498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 368 str.

Linda L. Layne

Opis

Anthropologist Linda Layne takes a theoretically informed approach to the topic of miscarriage and stillbirth. About 20 per cent of all pregnancies in the US end in miscarriage or stillbirth, yet pregnancy loss is not a socially accepted topic of discussion. To cope, many middle-class women join pregnancy loss support groups. Layne studies these groups and the rituals they create to help would-be-parents through their loss.

Spis treści

1. My Miscarriage Years2. Caught in the Middle: Pregnancy Loss at the Turn of the Century3. Studying Pregnancy Loss Support4. Challenges to Narratives of Linear Progress5. New Reproductive Technologies and the Fetal Subject 6. 'He Was a Real Baby With Baby Things': A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood, and Pregnancy Loss7. 'True Gifts from God': Paradoxes of Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Enrichment8. 'Never Such Innocence Again': Irony, Nature, and Technoscience 9. 'I Will Never Forget You': Trauma, Memory, and Moral Identity10. A Feminist Program for Pregnancy LossAppendix: Contact Information References CitedIndex

O autorze

Linda L. Layne is Hale Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies on the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.