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13 Cards in this Set
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"Choice is a Moving Target" (Solinger)
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-“choice” rhetoric is used because it is less threatening than “rights” rhetoric
-“right” is a privilege accessible without resources; “choice” requires resources -choice is complicated by race & class -reinforces idea that motherhood is a class privilege |
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“Abortion, Intimacy & the Duty to Gestate” (Little)
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-discussions of abortion don’t reflect reality; something goes uncaptured, unaccidentally
-mainstream political theory suggests that personhood means being physically separate from others -mother-fetal relationship doesn’t fit this theoretical model neatly -two things pro-life/pro-choice have in common: both depend on how we understand fetal personhood & neither take fetal geography as a pivotal fact -concept of intimacy & consent (compares it to sexual assault) -argues that mandating gestation is a harm |
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“Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence & Changing the Discourse” (Harris)
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-10% of abortions occur in the second trimester, that need is not going away
-most clinicians do not provide services to the extent permitted (depends on training & location – urban vs. rural) -second trimester dialation & evacuation (D&E) removes fetus in parts -38% of residents trained in abortion do not go on to provide services -5 reasons for providers’ discomfort with procedure 1) personal & psychological aspects 2) visual & visceral differences 3) inevitability of violence 4) silence 5) grey area |
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“The Only Black Woman Walking the Face of the Earth Who Cannot Have a Baby” (Ceballo)
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-infertility’s public image includes affluent, older whites
-fear of African-American sexuality & fertility -older African-American women most likely to struggle with infertility -many African-American women who are infertile feel alone; their experience is marked by loneliness & self-reliance |
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“Women as Wombs” (Raymond)
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-she argues against medicalized reproductive fundamentalism, which reduces infertility to a disease & promotes technology as cure
-technology violates integrity of a woman’s body in dangerous, debilitating & demeaning ways -questions women’s use of technology as a “choice”; what gets promoted as choice are often constraints to choose -fetus gets removed from womb in technological discussion, which hurts women’s reproductive rights -my opinion: Raymond’s comparison of technological reproduction to prostitution suggests an attitude of sex negativity & doesn’t allow for the possibility that women may still choose to use technological reproduction even if they existed in a vacuum; invalidates women’s capability of making choices |
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“Fault Lines: Infertility & Imperiled Sisterhood” (Sandelowski)
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between fertile & infertile women, reinforcing patriarchal ideas about divisions among women; cultural milieu promotes motherhood & subverts sisterhood
-by arguing that women don’t have free will, feminist critics invalidate women’s ability to have desires/make decisions -we do not have to deny women’s agency in order to critique technological reproduction -my opinion: Sandelowski essentializes women in a way by assuming that we could have this mythical “sisterhood” without division between infertile/fertile; there is nothing that connects ALL women & there never will be |
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“Unhappy Endings: A Feminist Reappraisal of the Women’s Health Movement from the Vantage of Pregnancy Loss” (Layne)
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-1% of births take place at home; ideal is not reality
-women’s health movement & biomedical models both place blame on the woman if a pregnancy goes wrong because they emphasize the idea of control -this attitude marginalizes “reproductive disasters” |
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“Spoiling the Pregnancy” (Rothman)
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-Dutch midwives believe that pregnancy can still be good even if outcome is bad; Americans cannot see costs of ruining a pregnancy
-they believe that testing provides often provides false protection or false alarm to worry about instead of having a peaceful pregnancy & assuming everything is going okay |
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“Rape, Genocide & Women’s Human Rights” (MacKinnon)
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-what is done to women is either too specific to be seen as human or too generic to be seen as specific to women
-genocidal rape wouldn’t be possible without everyday rape (“just war” vs. “just life” -rape needs to be understood as sex-specific violence -rape can be used as a war tool in war & every day |
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“Authoritative Knowledge & its Construction” (Jordan)
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birth as a cultural system
-parallel knowledge systems can exist, one can gain dominance over the other -argues for legitimizing women’s knowledge (ex. woman wants to push but can’t until doctor says she is ready) |
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“The Technological Model of Birth” (Davis-Floyd)
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-technological model of birth as a ritual that looks at child as a product
-body-as-machine metaphor: female body as a defective machine, birth as inherently dangerous -women may actually feel slighted if their birth deviates from the technological model -the way a culture handles birth points to its belief system & key values |
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“Breastfeeding & the Good Maternal Body” (Stearns)
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-breastfeeding as a performance
-article is about how women negotiate breastfeeding in front of others -sexualization of the breast & male gaze as a barrier to breastfeeding in public -women use discretion about where & in front of whom they choose to breastfeed -they use code words with the children -they use medical guidelines to inform their discourse/decision to breastfeed -these behaviors help them negotiate breastfeeding in hostile environments |
