Invisible labours : the reproductive politics of second trimester pregnancy loss in England /
"Tracing women's experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less 'real' or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labours describes the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Fertility, reproduction and sexuality : social and cultural perspectives;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 'You don't have a choice, you have to do it' : diagnosis of the foetal body and the determination of healthcare trajectories for pregnant women
- 'They're not supposed to deal with this kind of thing' : ontological boundary work, discipline and obstetric violence
- What counts as a baby and who counts as a mother? Civil registration and ontological politics
- Pregnancy remains, a baby or the corpse of a child? Governance classifications of the dead foetal body
- 'It wasn't all a figment of my imagination' : ontological disruption and embodiment
- 'I wanted people to know that they were my babies' : kinship as an ontology of resistance
- Conclusion. Making visible the labours of second trimester pregnancy loss.