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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Fertility, reproduction and sexuality : social and cultural perspectives; 54
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then use an alternative understanding of pregnancy based on kinship with the second trimester foetal being or baby to resist the erasure of their experience"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Miscarriage -- Social aspects -- England.
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Abortion -- Social aspects -- England.
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Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England.
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Pregnancy -- Complications.
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Pregnancy -- Trimester, Second.
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Pregnancy Trimester, Second |
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Grossesse -- 2e trimestre.
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Avortement spontané -- Aspect social -- Angleterre.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Abortion -- Social aspects
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Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Pregnancy -- Complications
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Pregnancy -- Trimester, Second
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England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Middlemiss, Aimee Louise. Invisible labours First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2024 9781805392576 (DLC) 2023050055 |
| ISBN |
9781805392118 (pdf) |
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1805392115 |
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9781805392583 (epub) |
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1805392581 |
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9781805392576 (hardback) |
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