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Author Middlemiss, Aimee Louise, author.

Title Invisible labours : the reproductive politics of second trimester pregnancy loss in England / Aimee Louise Middlemiss.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2024.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Fertility, reproduction and sexuality : social and cultural perspectives; 54
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.
Abortion -- Social aspects -- England.
Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England.
Pregnancy -- Complications.
Pregnancy -- Trimester, Second.
Pregnancy Trimester, Second
Grossesse -- 2e trimestre.
Avortement spontané -- Aspect social -- Angleterre.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Abortion -- Social aspects
Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Pregnancy -- Complications
Pregnancy -- Trimester, Second
England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Middlemiss, Aimee Louise. Invisible labours First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2024 9781805392576 (DLC) 2023050055
ISBN 9781805392118 (pdf)
1805392115
9781805392583 (epub)
1805392581
9781805392576 (hardback)

 
    
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