Pregnancy in a High-tech Age

Paradoxes of Choice

Author: Robin Gregg
ISBN: 9780814730751

Too often, in the debate over reproductive rights and technologies, we lose sight of the fundamental emotional and psychological issues that define the experience of pregnancy. Robin Gregg here draws on the words and stories of over thirty women to provide a first- hand perspective on pregnancy in the modern age. In an age where a new advance in reproductive technology occurs seemingly every month, pregnancy has come to be defined by such medical procedures as prenatal screening, amniocentesis, fetal monitoring, induced labor, and cesarean sections. Public policymakers, ethicists, religious figures, and the medical establishment control the debate, drowning out the voices of women who grapple in the most immediate sense with the issues. Even feminist theorists often overlook the nuances and paradoxes of the reproductive revolution as experienced by individual, particular women. The reader follows these thirty women as they speak about whether to become pregnant, and by what means; how

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 1995-04-01

Subjects: Family & Relationships / General, Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth, Health & Fitness / Sexuality, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Pregnancy)