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Motherhood lost : a feminist account of pregnancy loss in America / Linda L. Layne.

Title
Motherhood lost : a feminist account of pregnancy loss in America / Linda L. Layne.
Author
Layne, Linda L.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2003.

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xiii, 354 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at pregnancy loss in America, reproductive technologies and the cultural responses surrounding miscarriage. Examining both support groups and the rituals they create to help couples through loss, her analysis offers valuable insight on how material culture contributes to conceptions of personhood. A fascinating examination, Motherhood Lost is also a provocative challenge to feminists and other activists to increase awareness and provide necessary support for this often hidden but critically important topic.
Subject
  • Abortion, Spontaneous > psychology
  • Feminism
  • Fetal Death
  • Fetal death > United States
  • Maternal-Fetal Relations > psychology
  • Motherhood > United States
  • Pregnancy > Complications > United States
  • Self-Help Groups
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-345) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. My Miscarriage Years -- Ch. 2. Caught in the Middle: Pregnancy Loss at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 3. Pregnancy-Loss Support -- Ch. 4. Challenges to Narratives of Linear Progress -- Ch. 5. New Reproductive Technologies and the Fetal Subject -- Ch. 6. "He Was a Real Baby with Baby Things": A Material Culture Analysis of Personhood, Parenthood, and Pregnancy Loss -- Ch. 7. "True Gifts from God": Paradoxes of Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Enrichment -- Ch. 8. "Never Such Innocence Again": Irony, Nature, and Technoscience -- Ch. 9. "I Will Never Forget You": Trauma, Memory, and Moral Identity -- Ch. 10. Breaking the Silence: A Feminist Agenda for Pregnancy Loss.
ISBN
  • 0415911494
  • 0415911486 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2002021336
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library