Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn
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 Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674212673
ISBN13:9780674212671
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:134 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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