Contemplating maternity in an era of choice : explorations into discourses of reproduction /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010. |
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| Description: | xxxix, 344 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8113489 |
Table of Contents:
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- introduction
- Part I. Discourses of Choice
- Section I. Mediated Images of Choice
- 1. Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist Successes
- 2. No Exception Postprevention: "Differential Biopolrtics" on the Morning After
- 3. Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public Discourses
- Section II. Choice in the Public Sphere
- 4. Reproductive Freedom: Transforming Discourses of Choice
- 5. The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of Choice
- 6. Laws, Politics, and Reproductive Choices
- Part II. Experiences of Choice
- Section I. Pregnancy and Choice
- 7. My Eyes Cry without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to Motherhood
- 8. Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose"
- 9. The In/Fertile, Un/Natural Body: Ecofeminism, Dis/Embodiment, Technology, and (the Loss of) Choice
- Section II. Working with Choice
- 10. The Invisible Politics of "Choice" in the Workplace: Naming the Informal Parenting Support System
- 11. Cutting the Meeting Short: Conflicting Narrative Choices in One Woman's Maternity Leave
- 12. Total Motherhood and Having It All: Reproduction, Maternity, and Discourses of Choice among Female Police Officers
- Sectiion III. Ongoing Choices
- 13. Purposefully Childless Good Women
- 14. What Men Say about Women; Fathers Contemplate Work-Famiiy Choices and Motherhood
- 15. Outlaw Mothers Raising Gentle-men: Choosing to Disrupt Hegemonic Tensions between Masculinity and Feminism
- Index
- About the Contributors
