At Women’s Expense - State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights

No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a womans relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a womans rights?

List of contents

Introduction: Fetal Rights, Gender Difference, and Political Power 1. Fetal Animation: The Political and Cultural Emergence of Fetal Rights 2. Bodily Integrity and Forced Medical Treatment: The Case of Angela Carder 3. From Protecting the Woman to Privileging the Fetus: The Case of Johnson Controls 4. The Politics of Vengeance: The Case of Jennifer Johnson 5. Toward a New Body Politics Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the author

Cynthia R. Daniels is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

Summary

No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights?

Product details

• Authors: C. Daniels, Cynthia R. Daniels, Daniels Cynthia R.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1996
• EAN: 9780674050440
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05044-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Human rights, civil rights, Sociology: Birth, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general