The political geographies of pregnancy /Laura R. Woliver.

Feminist praxis, reproductive powers, medical models -- Praxis, approach, method / shifting powers in women's -- Reproduction / reproductive frames / unmet needs taken out of -- Context / feminist analysis of modern reproduction / women's -- Struggles for reproductive agency / controversial, heartfelt, -- Reproductive politics / additional voices and experiences / -- -- Defiant women / the plan of the book -- New reproductive technologies: medicalizations of pregnancy, -- Birth, reproduction, and infertility -- Standards of care / peripheral women / prenatal screening / -- -- International "choices" / sex selection reproductive -- Technologies' impact on abortion politics / cultural shifts / -- -- Conclusions -- The human genome project: designer genes -- A conceptual shift / geneticization, topographies of -- Reproductive power / increasing medicalization / eugenic -- Concerns / race, class, genome power / abilities, diversities -- / the "gay gene" quest / enhancements and improvements / the -- Mixed blessing of knowing / family impact / diseased futures / -- -- Reproduction, parenting, abortion / impact on mothers / -- -- Economic and market exchanges / human diversity genome project -- / social impact / breast cancer heartbreaks / ownership and -- Patenting / genetic, intentional, enhanced babies / elsi / -- -- Gender, power, and bioethics / conclusion -- Abortion politics: discourses on lives -- Revealed history, political action / subversive behaviors / -- -- Telling women's stories / telling fetuses stories / roe's -- Progress and limitations / abortion, women's praxis of the -- Ethic of care / abortion politics in local communities / -- -- Social movements, abortion, and culture wars / the context for -- Urban abortion battles / greenville and columbia, south -- Carolina / the grass-roots issue context / partial-birth, -- Late-term abortion ban / a national conflagration negotiated -- Locally one day at a time / interest group representations of -- Reproductive politics / abortion politics / conclusions -- Adoption and surrogacy: children as commodities, wombs for -- Rent -- Adoption markets / surrogacy / fragile power of mothers / full -- Surrogacy / surrogacy policy recommendations / the -- Patriarchal, nuclear family paradigm / voices silenced / -- -- Conclusion -- Social controls and reproductive politics: punitive monitoring -- Of pregnant women -- Framing / legal and illegal drugs and pregnant women / -- -- Framing/reframing / criminalizing prenatal care / coerced and -- Punitive contraception / punitive monitoring and control / -- -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: the changing political geographies of motherhood and -- Reproduction -- Feminist praxis: political challenge / feminist praxis: -- Imperfect individuals and connected communities / feminist -- Justice / conclusion.

As reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of pregnancy are shifting, and the boundaries need to be redrawn, argues Laura R. Woliver. Across a politically charged backdrop of reproductive issues, Woliver exposes strategies that claim to uphold the best interests of children, families, and women but in reality complicate women's struggles to have control over their own bodies. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory and promoting a feminist ethic of care, Woliver looks at the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, new reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of the human genome.

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