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Reproducing the womb : images of childbirth in science, feminist theory, and literature

Author: Alice E Adams
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©1994.
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Adams, Alice E. (Alice Elaine), 1957-
Reproducing the womb.
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1994
(OCoLC)653055136
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alice E Adams
ISBN: 0801429455 9780801429453 0801481619 9780801481611
OCLC Number: 29638013
Description: xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The Mirror of Birth: Origin Stories. 1. Remembering. 2. Natural Birth/Transitions. 3. Back to the Womb: William Carlos Williams's "A Night in June" and Ernest Hemingway's "Indian Camp" 4. The Birth Machine: Cyborg Mother --
Pt. II. The Mother-State: Revolutionary Subjects. 5. Great Mothers: The Girl as a Feminist Utopia. 6. The Thinking Man's Gestation. 7. Community, Identity, Stasis: The Mother-State and the Postrevolutionary Subject in Brave New World. 8. The Handmaid's Tale: A Banished Mother --
Pt. III. Framing the Fetal Portrait: Conception. 9. Technology and Economy: Metaphors for the Laboring Mother. 10. Fetal Vision. 11. Irigaray's Speculum: Views of the Womb. 12. Obstetrics and the Intelligible Fetus --
Pt. IV. Reproducing Postpatriarchal History: Mother Myths. 13. The Woman in the Machine: Feminist Writers of Speculative Fiction. 14. Postpartum/Postmortem --
Conclusion: The Original Test-Tube Woman.
Responsibility: Alice E. Adams.

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