Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006539
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Drawing on past speculation and present knowledge, a reproductive biologist conducts readers through the 40 weeks of human pregnancy, explaining the complex biology behind human gestation in a clear and entertaining manner. 16 halftones.
Making Babies
Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006539
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Drawing on past speculation and present knowledge, a reproductive biologist conducts readers through the 40 weeks of human pregnancy, explaining the complex biology behind human gestation in a clear and entertaining manner. 16 halftones.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006539
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Drawing on past speculation and present knowledge, a reproductive biologist conducts readers through the 40 weeks of human pregnancy, explaining the complex biology behind human gestation in a clear and entertaining manner. 16 halftones.
The Boundaries of Her Body
Author: Debran Rowland
Publisher: SphinxLegal
ISBN: 1572483687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Examines the legal status and rights of women in the United States throughoutistory.
Publisher: SphinxLegal
ISBN: 1572483687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Examines the legal status and rights of women in the United States throughoutistory.
The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy
Author: Lara Freidenfelds
Publisher:
ISBN: 019086981X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A historical exploration of the history of miscarriage and the development of the current childbearing culture in America, with its expectation of carefully planned, assiduously tended, and emotionally precious pregnancies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 019086981X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A historical exploration of the history of miscarriage and the development of the current childbearing culture in America, with its expectation of carefully planned, assiduously tended, and emotionally precious pregnancies.
The Boundaries of Her Body
Author: Debran Rowland
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402232152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1901
Book Description
Whatever your political beliefs, if you are a woman, you must know what the law says about you. The Boundaries of Her Body is the definitive history of the cycle of advances and setbacks that characterizes women's rights in America. Author Debran Rowland covers emotionally charged issues with thoughtful detail, offering insight into the strategies used by politicians and lobbyists to defeat long-standing law. The defeat for women's rights is an emotional and often polarized debate: A debate over what a woman is What a woman ought to be And what a woman should, therefore, be allowed to do Today, the future of women's rights is in jeopardy. "If I had to guess at the future for women, I would say we stand to lose many more significant battles—and the rights that go with them—if we don't begin to abandon the niceties of a comfortable life with educated opinions and start waging the kind of aggressive, no-holds-barred guerrilla war that our opponents have been riding to victory." —from the Epilogue to The Boundaries of Her Body Rowland combines provocative arguments with exhaustive research and affirms that, in spite of advancements, the boundaries of women's bodies will continue to be a source of bitter contention in the law. "Debran Rowland brilliantly argues the continuing inequality of women's rights in America with the most meticulous and comprehensive research in our times." —Betty Friedan author of The Feminine Mystique
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402232152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1901
Book Description
Whatever your political beliefs, if you are a woman, you must know what the law says about you. The Boundaries of Her Body is the definitive history of the cycle of advances and setbacks that characterizes women's rights in America. Author Debran Rowland covers emotionally charged issues with thoughtful detail, offering insight into the strategies used by politicians and lobbyists to defeat long-standing law. The defeat for women's rights is an emotional and often polarized debate: A debate over what a woman is What a woman ought to be And what a woman should, therefore, be allowed to do Today, the future of women's rights is in jeopardy. "If I had to guess at the future for women, I would say we stand to lose many more significant battles—and the rights that go with them—if we don't begin to abandon the niceties of a comfortable life with educated opinions and start waging the kind of aggressive, no-holds-barred guerrilla war that our opponents have been riding to victory." —from the Epilogue to The Boundaries of Her Body Rowland combines provocative arguments with exhaustive research and affirms that, in spite of advancements, the boundaries of women's bodies will continue to be a source of bitter contention in the law. "Debran Rowland brilliantly argues the continuing inequality of women's rights in America with the most meticulous and comprehensive research in our times." —Betty Friedan author of The Feminine Mystique
American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Harry Noyes Greene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Planet Pregnancy
Author: Linda Oatman High
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590785843
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, and all its conflicting emotions, in this novel told in free verse.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590785843
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, and all its conflicting emotions, in this novel told in free verse.
Proving Pregnancy
Author: Felicity M. Turner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469669714
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women—Black and white, enslaved and free—gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals. In the first half of the nineteenth century, community-based female knowledge played a crucial role in prosecutions for infanticide: midwives, neighbors, healers, and relatives were better acquainted with an accused woman's intimate life, the circumstances of her pregnancy, and possible motives for infanticide than any man. As the century progressed, women accused of the crime were increasingly subject to the scrutiny of white male legal and medical experts educated in institutions that reinforced prevailing ideas about the inferior mental and physical capacities of women and Black people. As Reconstruction ended, the reach of the carceral state expanded, while law and medicine simultaneously privileged federal and state regulatory power over that of local institutions. These transformations placed all women's bodies at the mercy of male doctors, judges, and juries in ways they had not been before. Reframing knowledge of the body as property, Felicity M. Turner shows how, at the very moment when the federal government expanded formal civil and political rights to formerly enslaved people, the medical profession instituted new legal regulations across the nation that restricted access to knowledge of the female body to white men.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469669714
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women—Black and white, enslaved and free—gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals. In the first half of the nineteenth century, community-based female knowledge played a crucial role in prosecutions for infanticide: midwives, neighbors, healers, and relatives were better acquainted with an accused woman's intimate life, the circumstances of her pregnancy, and possible motives for infanticide than any man. As the century progressed, women accused of the crime were increasingly subject to the scrutiny of white male legal and medical experts educated in institutions that reinforced prevailing ideas about the inferior mental and physical capacities of women and Black people. As Reconstruction ended, the reach of the carceral state expanded, while law and medicine simultaneously privileged federal and state regulatory power over that of local institutions. These transformations placed all women's bodies at the mercy of male doctors, judges, and juries in ways they had not been before. Reframing knowledge of the body as property, Felicity M. Turner shows how, at the very moment when the federal government expanded formal civil and political rights to formerly enslaved people, the medical profession instituted new legal regulations across the nation that restricted access to knowledge of the female body to white men.
Principles of Oocyte and Embryo Donation
Author: Mark V. Sauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461216400
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This is the definitive reference on the medical, surgical, legal, and ethical aspects of establishing and maintaining an office-based egg donation program. The editor has assembled an international list of authors with known expertise in this rapidly expanding field. The clinical procedures are clearly depicted in the book`s many line drawings and photographs.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461216400
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This is the definitive reference on the medical, surgical, legal, and ethical aspects of establishing and maintaining an office-based egg donation program. The editor has assembled an international list of authors with known expertise in this rapidly expanding field. The clinical procedures are clearly depicted in the book`s many line drawings and photographs.
For Whose Protection?
Author: Sally Jane Kenney
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472081769
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Probes the complex issues that underlie policies regarding women's reproduction and the workplace
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472081769
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Probes the complex issues that underlie policies regarding women's reproduction and the workplace
Common Bodies
Author: Laura Gowing
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights about the extent to which early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies. Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women—wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices of the time concerning women’s bodies and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights about the extent to which early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies. Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women—wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices of the time concerning women’s bodies and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender.