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^ Read ^ Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction by Jennifer M. Denbow ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction A critically important analysis, Governed through Choice is a trailblazing look at how the law regulates women’s bodies as reproductive sites and what can be done about it. . Denbow also shows how developments in reproductive technology, which would seem to increase women’s options and autonomy, provide even more opportunities for state management of women’s bodies. Moreover, while reproductive technologies may heighten surveillance, they can also help d
| Title | : | Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479843911 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
Very Interesting Read A very interesting read -- Denbow does a great job. I am considering adopting it for one of my courses.
“Denbow provides a legal and philosophical analysis of reproductive politics in the US. She develops the concept of women’s reproductive autonomy, drawing from classic definitions of autonomy by Rousseau and Kant.” -Choice“Governed through Choice brings new perspective to the changing political landscape of women’s reproductive rights.”-PsycCRITIQUES“This book brilliantly theorizes two faces of autonomy in contemporary liberal democracies—autonomy as a technique of self-management and governance, and autonomy as a frame for critique and transformation of subordinating practices. Without ever denying the self’s constructed and relational dimensions, Jennifer Denbow argues compellingly for an individual women’s essential control over her own reproductive existence.O
. Jennifer M. Denbow is Assistant Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
A critically important analysis, Governed through Choice is a trailblazing look at how the law regulates women’s bodies as reproductive sites and what can be done about it. . Denbow also shows how developments in reproductive technology, which would seem to increase women’s options and autonomy, provide even more opportunities for state management of women’s bodies. Moreover, while reproductive technologies may heighten surveillance, they can also help disrupt oppressive norms about reproduction and gender, and create space for transformation. Denbow exposes the way that the notion of autonomy allows for this apparent contradiction and explores how it plays out in recent reproductive law, including newly enacted informed consent to abortion laws like ultrasound mandates and the regulation of sterilization. Yet, Denbow asserts that there is a way forward and offers an alternative understanding of autonomy that focuses on critique and social transformation. The book argues that notions of autonomy and choice, as well as transformations in reproductive technology, converge to enable the state’s surveillance of women and undermine their decision-making authority. At the center of the “war on women” lies the fact that women in the contemporary United States are facing more widespread and increased surveillance of their reproductive health and decisions. Physicians continue to ste
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