Reproducing narrative
Subtitle: gender, reproduction, and law
By: Michael Thomson.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aldershot; Brookfield, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Abortion -- Social aspects.; Abortion -- Law and legislation -- Language.; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.; Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Language.; Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects.; Women's health services -- Social aspects.; Discourse analysis.
Description: Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses. Recognising that these dialogues are heavily imbricated in social, political and economic discourses it is contended that responses to reproductive issues are influenced, and possibly determined, by non-reproductive concerns at both a parochial and more general level. Privileged medico-legal discourses become understood as technologies of gender-important sites at which gender is constituted.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.