Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn

by Barbara Duden

Book Overview

In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced "quickening"--she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience once mediated by women themselves has become a public experience interpreted and controlled by medical professionals. In Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674212673
• ISBN13: 9780674212671
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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