Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions

by Morgan, Lynn Marie; Michaels, Meredith W.

• ISBN13: 9780812234961
• ISBN10: 0812234960
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

This timely volume provides scholars and reproductive rights activists a forum for dialogue about fetuses without conceding to a moral or political agenda that would sanctify them at women's expense.

Author Biography

Lynn M. Morgan is Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Fetal Imperative	1	(10)
Meredith W. Michaels
Lynn M. Morgan
Part I. Conceiving the Fetus: History and Overview	11	(88)
The Fetus on the ``Farther Shore'': Toward a History of the Unborn	13	(13)
Barbara Duden
The Emergence of the Fetus	26	(17)
Kathryn Pyne Addelson
Materializing the Fetal Body, Or, What Are Those Corpses Doing in Biology's Basement?	43	(18)
Lynn M. Morgan
Dead Embryos: Feminism in Suspension	61	(22)
Sarah Franklin
Fathers, Mothers, and Fetal Harm: Rethinking Gender Difference and Reproductive Responsibility	83	(16)
Cynthia R. Daniels
Part II. Manipulating the Fetal Image	99	(100)
Operation to the Rescue: Feminist Encounters with Fetal Surgery	101	(12)
Monica J. Casper
Fetal Galaxies: Some Questions About What We See	113	(20)
Meredith W. Michaels
The Traffic in Fetuses	133	(26)
Carol A. Stabile
Minority Unborn	159	(16)
Carol Mason
Irish Trans/national Politics and Locating Fetuses	175	(24)
Laury Oaks
Part III. Of Women and Fetuses	199	(97)
``Womb with a View'': Script and Stills	201	(35)
Sherry Millner
The Fetal Monster	236	(15)
Ernest Larsen
``I Remember the Day I Shopped for Your Layette'': Consumer Goods, Fetuses, and Feminism in the Context of Pregnancy Loss	251	(28)
Linda L. Layne
Fetal Reflections: Confessions of Two Feminist Anthropologists as Mutual Informants	279	(17)
Faye Ginsburg
Rayna Rapp
Epilogue: Reflections on Abortion Politics and the Practices Called Person	296	(9)
Valerie Hartouni
Bibliography	305	(26)
List of Contributors	331	(2)
Acknowledgments	333	(2)
Index	335