Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work /

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Author / Creator:Showden, Carisa Renae.
Imprint:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
Description:xviii, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8397344
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ISBN:9780816655953 (hc : alk. paper)
0816655952 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816655960 (pb : alk. paper)
0816655960 (pb : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Conceiving agency: autonomy, freedom, and the creation of the embodied subject
  • Should I stay or should I go?: intimate partner violence and the agency in "victim"
  • Mum's the word: assisted reproduction and the ideology of motherhood
  • Working it: prostitution and the social construction of sexual desire
  • Agency and feminist politics: the role of democratic coalitions.