Motherhood Lost - the Cultural Construction of Miscarriage and Stillbirth in America

Zusatztext 109966620 Informationen zum Autor Linda L. Layne is Hale Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies on the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Klappentext First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Anthropologist Linda Layne takes a theoretically informed approach to the topic of miscarriage and stillbirth. About 20 per cent of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth, yet pregnancy loss is not a socially accepted topic of Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. My Miscarriage Years2. Caught in the Middle: Pregnancy Loss at the Turn of the Century3. Studying Pregnancy Loss Support4. Challenges to Narratives of Linear Progress5. New Reproductive Technologies and the Fetal Subject 6. 'He Was a Real Baby With Baby Things': A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood, and Pregnancy Loss7. 'True Gifts from God': Paradoxes of Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Enrichment8. 'Never Such Innocence Again': Irony, Nature, and Technoscience 9. 'I Will Never Forget You': Trauma, Memory, and Moral Identity10. A Feminist Program for Pregnancy LossAppendix: Contact Information References CitedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Linda Layne, Linda L Layne, Linda L. Layne, Layne Linda L.
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2002
• EAN: 9780415911481
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91148-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Society and culture: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Welfare and benefit systems, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement