Choices women make
Subtitle: agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work
By: Carisa R. Showden
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780816655953; 9780816655960
Subjects: Autonomy (Psychology); Identity; Feminist theory; Reproductive technology; Family violence; Prostitution; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceiving agency: autonomy, freedom, and the creation of the embodied subject; title: Should I stay or should I go?: intimate partner violence and the agency in "victim"; title: Mum's the word: assisted reproduction and the ideology of motherhood; title: Working it: prostitution and the social construction of sexual desire; title: Agency and feminist politics: the role of democratic coalitions.