Disembodying Women - Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn

About the author

Barbara Duden has been on the faculty of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, Germany.

Summary

In Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden 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 refrained pregnancy as a managed process, the mother as an ecosystem, and the fetus as an endangered species.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Duden, Duden Barbara
• Assisted by: Lee Hoinacki (Translation), Hoinacki Lee (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9780674212671
• ISBN: 978-0-674-21267-1
• No. of pages: 134
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: illustrations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; History of Ideas, Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / General, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, The arts, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Human rights, civil rights, Sociology: Birth