Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminal costs of motherhood /
Michele Goodwin.
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge University Press
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Feb 2020).. - Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pregnancy and State Power: Prosecuting Fetal Endangerment -- 3 Creeping Criminalization of Pregnancy across the United States -- 4 Abortion Law -- 5 Changing Roles of Doctors and Nurses: Hospital Snitches and Police Informants -- 6 Revisiting the Fiduciary Relationship -- 7 Creating Criminals: Race, Stereotypes, and Collateral Damage -- 8 The Pregnancy Penalty: When the State Gets It Wrong -- 9 Policing Beyond the Border -- 10 Lessons for Law and Society: A Reproductive Justice New Deal or Bill of Rights -- 11 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.. - Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.
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| ISBN | 1-139-34324-6
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