Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America

Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America
ISBN-10
0814727549
ISBN-13
9780814727546
Category
Social Science
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Jeanne Flavin

Description

"In this important work, Jeanne Flavin looks beyond abortion to document how the law and the criminal justice system police women's rights to conceive, to be pregnant, and to rear their children, as well as how the state seeks to establish what a "good woman" and "fit mother" should look like. Calling for broad-based measures that strengthen women's economic position, choice-making, autonomy, sexual freedom, and health care, Our Bodies, Our Crimes is a battle cry for all women in their fight to be fully recognized as human beings"--

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