Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

ISBN-13: 9781107030176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 334 str.

Michele Goodwin

Opis

This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.

Recenzje

'Policing the Womb is an impressive, scholarly, yet very readable, study which draws on more than two hundred court cases, statutes, legal briefs, and legislative and government reports as well as an impressive list of scholarly books and articles which span medicine, health policy, law and the social sciences. It also draws on hundreds of newspaper articles, films and other media sources. While I plan to use it for an upper division medical anthropology course that I've been teaching for the last seventeen years, I think it would also be suitable for courses on health policy and law, women and gender studies, and ethics.' Ronald Loewe, Anthropology Book Forum (https://anthrobookforum.americananthro.org)

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Pregnancy and state power: prosecuting fetal endangerment; 3. Creeping criminalization of pregnancy across the United States; 4. Abortion law; 5. Changing roles of doctors and nurses: hospital snitches and police informants; 6. Revisiting the fiduciary relationship; 7. Creating criminals: race, stereotypes, and collateral damage; 8. The pregnancy penalty: when the state gets it wrong; 9. Policing beyond the border; 10. Lessons for law and society: a reproductive justice New Deal or Bill of Rights; 11. Conclusion.