In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced quickening - she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience, once mediated by women themselves, has become a public experience interpreted and controlled by medical professionals. In this study, the author takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology, and parallel changes in public discourse, have transformed pregnancy into a...
In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced quickening - she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees ...
In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy and sick - are in fact cultural constructions.
In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female,...
