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Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work /

Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inhe...

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Main Author: Showden, Carisa Renae
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Women > Identity.
Autonomy (Psychology)
Feminist theory.
Family violence.
Reproductive technology.
Prostitution.
Women's rights.
Reproductive health.
Women's Rights
Personal Autonomy
Reproductive Medicine
Domestic Violence
Sex Work
Reproductive Techniques
prostitution.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816676569
0816676569
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Conceiving agency: autonomy, freedom, and the creation of the embodied subject
  • Should I stay or should I go?: intimate partner violence and the agency in "victim"
  • Mum's the word: assisted reproduction and the ideology of motherhood
  • Working it: prostitution and the social construction of sexual desire
  • Agency and feminist politics: the role of democratic coalitions.

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