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Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage

Autor Victoria Browne
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2022
Pregnancy is so thoroughly entangled with birth and babies in the popular imagination that a pregnancy which ends in miscarriage consistently appears as a failure or a waste of time - indeed, as not proper to pregnancy at all. But in this compelling book, Victoria Browne argues that reflection on miscarriage actually deepens and expands our understanding of pregnancy, forcing us to consider what pregnancy can amount to besides the production of a child. By exploring common themes within personal accounts of miscarriage-including feelings of failure, self-blame and being 'stuck in limbo'-Pregnancy Without Birth critically interrogates teleological discourses and disciplinary ideologies that elevate birth as pregnancy's 'natural' and 'normal' endpoint. As well as politicizing miscarriage as a feminist issue, the book articulates an alternative intercorporeal philosophy of pregnancy which embraces variation, invites us to sit with ambiguity, contingency and suspension, and enables us to see subjective agency in all pregnancies, even as they are shaped by biological, political and social forces beyond our personal control. What emerges is a relational feminist politics of full-spectrum solidarity, social justice and care (rather than individualized choice and responsibility), which breaks down presumed oppositions between pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth and live birth, and liberates pregnancy from reproductive futurism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350279698
ISBN-10: 1350279692
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Miscarriage impacts a huge number of people across the world but has all too often been treated as a taboo topic. This is changing and this book contributes to this by exploring common themes within personal accounts of miscarriage, and breaking down presumed oppositions between pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth and live birth

Notă biografică

Victoria Browne is Reader in Political Theory at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is co-author of Politics: An Introduction (3rd ed., 2018), author of Feminism, Time and Non-Linear History (2014) and has edited multiple volumes including Vulnerability and the Politics of Care (2021) and Motherhood in Literature and Culture (2017). She is also a member of the editorial collective Radical Philosophy.

Cuprins

prefaceacknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: FailureChapter 2: ControlChapter 3: AmbiguityChapter 4: SuspensionChapter 5: Solidaritybibliographyindex

Recenzii

Deftly weaving together insights from first-hand accounts, philosophical analyses, and the social sciences, Browne argues persuasively that birth-centric models of pregnancy necessarily fail to grasp the complex, ambiguous phenomenon that is miscarriage. Her careful and insightful analysis provides a welcome contribution to scholarly conversations on gender, embodiment, and reproductive subjectivity.
Browne presents a vital call for solidarity in these times of increasing criminalization of pregnancy. Her understanding of agency is embodied and contextual, rather than a matter of straightforward choice. This compelling framework enables a relational politics of care for and among pregnant people, regardless of the results of a pregnancy.
Politicizing miscarriage as a feminist issue, and a question for philosophy, Pregnancy Without Birth breaks open the stigma and shame surrounding miscarriage and offers a powerful, timely and radical thesis about the politics of pregnancy, both with and without birth. A brilliantly argued and movingly written work.