Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture

by Naomi R. Cahn, Helena Michie, Naomi Cahn

When a woman in the United States becomes pregnant or tries to become pregnant, she enters a world of information, technology, and expertise. Suddenly her body becomes public in a new way: medicine, law, and popular culture all offer her sometimes contradictory "expert" advice. Confinements explores the advice offered to pregnant and infertile women by examining assumptions about femininity, class, and the reproductive body that structure the language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813524334
• ISBN13: 9780813524337
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"