At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights

by Cynthia R. Daniels

Book Overview

Some say the fetus is the "tiniest citizen." If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas--or, recent cases suggest, battlefields; A cocaine--addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must prove infertility to keep their jobs. A terminally ill woman is forced to undergo a cesarean section. No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050436
• ISBN13: 9780674050433
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"