Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9780813524337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 206 str.

Helena Michie; Naomi Cahn

Opis

When a woman in the United States becomes pregnant or tries to become pregnant, she enters a world of information, technology, and expertise. Suddenly her body becomes public in a new way: medicine, law, and popular culture all offer her sometimes contradictory expert advice. This text explores the advice offered to pregnant and infertile women by examining assumptions about femininity, class, and the reproductive body that structure the language of expertise. Even advice books written from a specifically countercultural or feminist point of view often attempt to police the way women think about their bodies.