Disembodying Women
Author | : Barbara Duden |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674212673 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674212671 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Download or read book Disembodying Women written by Barbara Duden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology and parallel changes in public discourse have refrained pregnancy as a managed process, the mother as an ecosystem, and the fetus as an endangered species.